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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted COBALT ore, or impure cobalt … ingredient in the glass-like SMALT giving it a fine blue colour. It was also used in enamelling and in PORCELAIN. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… palustris, Linn. A common resident, but rather local. 35. Blue Tit. Parus cruleus, Linn. A common resident. 36. … more commonly around Frome and in the extreme west. 42. Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla flava, Linn. An …
A History of the County of Somerset
… original ' Bath-white' ( Pieris daplidice) and the Large Blue ( Lycna arion), were found in the county so long ago as … captured British specimens of this pretty little 'tailed blue. Two were taken in Dorset by the Rev. O. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… is a small village on the borders of Exmoor. Those from Blue Anchor and Leigh Woods were collected by Mr. R. I. Pocock. Blue Anchor is a small village lying between Watchet and … forficatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 638 (1758). Blue Anchor, Winsford, Leigh Woods. The common large brown …