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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… late seventeenth century. It involved heating the ore in a reverbaratory furnace until the ARSENIC came off in a white … and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers [Harley (1970)]. Although …
Survey of London
… STREET CHAPEL In 1687 the Baptists of Southwark built 201 a meeting house in Gravel Lane on ground held by lease from … Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … and it is the earliest nonconformist school in London for which any detailed information is available. Three books …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Birds, Mammals FISHES The fishes of Somerset have received a good deal of attention from the late Mr. W. Baker, who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in … the source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a record of inland mollusca above the average, not only in … found in the county, and possibly one or two more may yet be added, such for instance as Vitrea lucida. The general … grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Other Invertebrates MYRIAPODA Although it cannot be claimed that Somerset has been well worked so far as … of the species recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet obtained certainly await …