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Old and New London
… other cases covered by a roofintersected by pits or oblong cisterns, whose upper edges are level with the ground. These cisterns are the tan-pits, in which hides are exposed to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Place, is a modern building but contains two small lead cisterns, one dated 1671. (6) House, No. 19, on the W. side …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… freestone, of which furnace hearth-stones, rollers, cisterns, &c., are made; as also a bed of inferior sandy …
A New History of London
… of a six-inch bore; which emptied themselves into stone cisterns, or conduits lined with lead. The first and greatest …