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A History of the County of Somerset
… but on the Steep Holm, a rock in the Channel some 256 feet high and three miles off the end of Brean Down, both the … in the extreme west. The raven has forsaken some of its old haunts but clings to others with praiseworthy tenacity; I … the county, where a few pairs nest on the sea cliffs. Some old haunts, as for example the cliffs at Cheddar, have been …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and inland, while its geology includes the Devonian, Old Red Sandstone, Mountain Limestone, Coal Measures, New Red … very scarce in the district, and has not been seen in its old haunts near Bristol for the last twenty years. Thanks to … Brockley, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. It flies high in the daytime, near the tree-tops Gnophria quadra, L. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… under an accumulation of decaying seaweed marking the last high tide. 15. Schendyla nemorensis, C. Koch. Deutschl. … great abundance at Clevedon, in a ditch far above ordinary high-water mark, of which the water was scarcely at all … both from Devonshire and the neighbourhood of Bristol. The old schoolmen are said to have propounded the subtle question …