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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe was in SAXONY. Although the product … and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers [Harley (1970)]. Although … and expensive preserved foods. One included it among his long-keeping 'rich sauces for fish, ... and all made …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Zetland Z Zetland ZETLAND, Isles of.See article Shetland. …
Survey of London
… ZOAR STREET AND ZOAR STREET CHAPEL In 1687 the Baptists of Southwark built 201 a meeting house in Gravel Lane on … Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … Bunyan may have preached there, but as he died in 1688 his connection with it must have been of short duration. The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals FISHES The fishes of Somerset have received a good deal of attention from the … who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in … mentioned one Somerset example of the common cormorant in his Birds of Somersetshire published in 1869, and even so …
A History of the County of Somerset
… NON-MARINE Favoured in its situation and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a record of inland … grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list … collecting was done in the western counties, Stephens in his Illustrations of British Entomology recording a very …
A History of the County of Somerset
… further search will do much more than extend our knowledge of the distribution throughout the county of the species … recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet obtained certainly await … on rather slender but sufficient evidence. Adam White, in his List of the specimens of British animals in the …