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A History of the County of Shropshire
… involved in some cases, the heavier clay soils and the peat mosses in the north seem to have been inclosed first, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… from which such materials as brushwood, bracken, turf, and peat might be taken 49 was reduced. At Hisland, near …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Houghton 'In Holland they use dove-coal, that is made of peat almost burnt out' [Houghton]. This suggests that a form of coking was applied to the peat. Apart from the one entry in Houghton, dove coal has not …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… vessels of small burthen. The soil is various, generally peat-moss, with some tracts of clay and gravel; the chief … labourer who, having found a large treasure while digging peat in the Lochar moss, took a journey to London, where, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the year, also, the stormy seas, and the dreary tracts of peat-moss, invest the locality with a wild and uninviting … occasional patches, as well as considerable tracts, of peat-moss. The soil in general is thin and dry, except on the … hollows at the base is a greater depth of moss, supplying peat in large quantities, and of the best description. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… under the three principal heads of clay, loam, and peat. The corn and pulse crops generally cultivated are, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… as if baked together. It contains a large quantity of peat-moss, and has plenty of fresh water. Some years since, … or medal of the Empress Faustina has been found in the peat-moss, of which the inscription was quite legible. At …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 61 was sometimes non-resident and in 1822 Sir Robert Peat, vicar 1808-37, had been absent without licence for six …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Romans. To it belong the great tracts of alluvia, the peat bogs, and the contents of some of the caverns, all being … however only an approximation. The submerged forests and peat bogs so amply represented on our shores prove that the … Bridgwater and Boroughbridge. They extend underneath the peat bogs and alluvia drained by the Parrett, the Axe, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with a temperate molluscan fauna and by a thin seam of peat (in which a few Alpine and sub-Alpine species occur with …