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A History of the County of Somerset
… north-south bands of Fuller's Earth and Fuller's Earth rock. 78 There were said to be light and dark blue marls at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is of a mossy quality, mixed with particles of decayed rock; and in several places are extensive peatmosses, in … occasionally of clay incorporated with particles of rock and of sand transported by storms from the margin of the … under masses of peat-moss, and incumbent on the prevailing rock, the earth being imbedded with birch, oak, &c. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… timber-framing is exposed on the S. side. (14). Barns, at Rock's Place, 700 yards N.E. of the church, form a long range …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and situated on a rock commanding a fine view of Maen Arthur wood, is an … Great quantities of limestone are quarried at the Cribarth rock, and purchased by farmers and others along the line of … and other purposes. On the limestone to the north of this rock is found an abundance of tripoli, or lapis cariosus, of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A loose freestone rubble, resting either upon a freestone rock or upon clay, is also very common; and in different … wastes, have generally a fine loamy soil on a limestone rock, which produces great quantities of coarse grass and … covers a strong soil lying upon a gritstone or freestone rock; the black ling, a reddish peat upon a red subsoil, or, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… or any species of gulls, but on the Steep Holm, a rock in the Channel some 256 feet high and three miles off … on or near the coast may be mentioned the cirl-bunting, rock-pipit, wheatear, stonechat, common sheld-duck, … Clevedon, May 30, 1893 ( Zoologist, 1893, p. 267).] 46. Rock-Pipit. Anthus obscurus (Latham). A common resident on …
A History of the County of Somerset
… at Castle Cary (Macmillan) sequax, Haw. Leigh; among rock-rose Recurvaria leucatella, Clk. Common among hawthorn … miscella, Schiff. Leigh Woods, Brislington, etc.; among rock rose epilobiella, Sch. Keynsham, Brislington, Leigh, …