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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers [Harley (1970)]. Although … nineteenth century [Rees (1819-20, 1972 ed.)], according to Rolt, most zaffre was brought from the East Indies, … Rolt claimed that zaffre was so much in demand that the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is hilly, and sandstone of good quality is quarried for building, and for repairing roads. The living is a rectory, … the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now a school-house. Zeals ZEALS, a tything, … are common or waste. It has quarries of granite used for building, and some tin-mines, but the substratum of the …
Survey of London
… Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … at Southwark Library. They show that the original building, including galleries and seats, cost 360 and they … though the school still carried on in an adjoining building. Views of the exterior and the interior of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). Very few additions … near Bristol. The locality however appears to be in Gloucestershire. 101. Hoopoe. Upupa epops, Linn. A rare …
A History of the County of Somerset
… grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list … is Vertigo antivertigo, while V. angustior comes from a Gloucestershire locality. The principal papers on the … presented to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society, about 1860, by Mr. Woodland, who told me that it was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet obtained certainly await … here constitutes the boundary line between Somerset and Gloucestershire. Chilopoda Centipedes Lithobiid Short-bodied, … Crustacea, p. 178. Fossil Estheri, Palontographical Society, p. 67 (1862). Transactions of the Linnan Society, …