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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… stones, moistened and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers … enamelling and in PORCELAIN. Rolt claimed that zaffre was so much in demand that the Society for the Encouragement of …
Survey of London
… the chapel early in the 18th century and presumably was so named because of it, since "Zoar" means a place of refuge …
A History of the County of Somerset
… BIRDS The physical features of the county of Somerset are so diversified that an ornithologist might well expect to … naturalists to record facts would prove that many of these so-called 'waifs and strays' may be far more often met with … in his Birds of Somersetshire published in 1869, and even so keen a naturalist as the Rev. M. A. Mathew could not add …
A History of the County of Somerset
… that of most other counties; indeed it is probably more so. The majority of insects feed on plants, some confining … and at Stoke by Dr. Walter mundana, L., is common on old walls on downs, etc., near Bristol, Brislington, Bath, … NOCTU Byrophila glandifera, Hub. (muralis, Fors.). On old walls near Bath, Bathampton, Bridgwater, Castle Cary, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… it cannot be claimed that Somerset has been well worked so far as Myriapoda are concerned, since collections have … species in other counties is probably attributable not so much to their rarity as to their having been overlooked or … amongst the rocks or the herbage or the chinks in the walls of outhouses, wherever the various species may happen …
A Dictionary of London
… (Lord) House. Zylynghous A brewhouse, shop, and house so called situate near the tenement of Reginald de Conduit in …