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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… lakes of less importance, some of them containing rich beds of shell-marl, which is used as manure for the lands. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… covered with large freestones; while upon others are beds of peat bog, in many places very deep, frequently not … and of Middleton near Leeds. Beneath it are found valuable beds of ironstone, which are worked at Rotherham, … this riding abound, in all their hills, with inexhaustible beds of aluminous strata; and extensive works for the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and hedges. To the north of the Polden Hills are extensive beds of peat known as the turf or peat moors. In the summer … in parts covered with a luxuriant vegetation such as thick beds of alder and sallow and masses of plants of lower …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Bristol; M. pterodactylus, L., is common in strawberry beds and amongst Veronica dematophorus lithodactylus, Tr., is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in the Rhtic formation, which consists of passage beds between the Lias and Trias. 13 If the Phyllopods and the …