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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre - Zoobditty match Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted … COBALT ore, or impure cobalt arsenate. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe … in a reverbaratory furnace until the ARSENIC came off in a white smoke that settled and was collected in a long wooden …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). … kestrel, oyster-catcher, and ringed plover, while the white wagtail ( Motacilla alba) appears regularly at the … were seen at Charlinch near Bridgwater by the Rev. W. A. Bell. About the same time a small flock was seen at Nynehead, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Molluscs and Insects ZOOLOGY MOLLUSCS NON-MARINE Favoured in its … liquorice was brought me which contained a few small white maggots. I put this into a closed glass jar, and in a … and that a few rare species, such as the original ' Bath-white' ( Pieris daplidice) and the Large Blue ( Lycna arion), …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the county of the species recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet … rests on rather slender but sufficient evidence. Adam White, in his List of the specimens of British animals in the … a correspondent of Dr. Leach, and subsequently of Thomas Bell, both distinguished carcinologists, and one may be …