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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 91 Stanhope considered Shropshire cottages 'infamous': the mud houses occupied by Melverley labourers in 1851 may have …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… cereals could be grown on the rich pond bottom before the mud was dug out and spread on the fields to improve …
Old and New London
… round her throat, And ere she mount the step, the oozing mud Sinks through her pale kid slipper. On the morrow She …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 68 Heavy traffic on the highway, however, 69 churning up mud or creating dust, 70 had already given much of Brentford …
A History of the County of Somerset
… at Burrington Coombe and Cheddar Pass. The red and grey mud, the sand and the pebbles in which the bones were … the coast of west Somerset occurs underneath the estuarine mud of the Severn at Porlock and Minehead, at a depth of 35 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presence of ground-ice, snow slopes, and heavy runoff of mud, stones, and water from slopes during periods of melting, … turf being bulged like a wrinkled carpet. These flows of mud and gravel recall the transgressive movement of chalk and … gravels and the filling of the deep channel with silt, mud, and peaty beds, capped with alluvium, can be recognized …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in the peat 8 ft. to 9 ft. below the surface of the tidal mud when the Albert Dock was dug in the Plaistow and East Ham …
Survey of London
… foundations, which were 'the worst description of Thames mud' and which he identified as 'the old foreshore'. This …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… brick wall about it, for the repair of the present mud fence will cost as much, Are very sensible how much the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and 2nd centuries A.D. In 1920 the remains visible in the mud at low-tide represented three adjacent huts, and … which still remains in excellent preservation below the mud. The two innermost rings of stakes are about 8 in. apart, …