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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… most part is a reddish clay, with occasionally marl, sand, peat, and limestone. There are indications of coal in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and to the east boulder clay and sand and gravel, with peat along Snowdon brook. 86 From Beckbury village a minor …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and the remainder sandy, and black loam inclining to peat-moss. The system of agriculture is greatly improved, and … order. The rateable annual value of the parish is 8280. Peat for fuel is cut on Edge Moss, and coal, of which the … all the varieties of gravel, clay, till, loam, and peat-moss, and is generally of a poor or middling character; …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… soil is partly a loamy earth, resting on clay, and partly peat and bog; a small quantity of grain is grown, but the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 2092 acres; the soil is clay, gravel, and peat. On the 18th of July, 1657, about a quarter of an acre …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1817, is conducted on Dr. Bell's plan. In the peat bog here, numerous antediluvian trees are found.See …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it is a strong clay loam, and in other parts gravel and peat. A large stream, issuing from a bed of chalk, runs …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the western half part of the Ancholme level; the soil is a peat moor, upon a stratum of clay. There are some quarries of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… great slate, or rather shale, tract of South Wales. Here peat commonly occupies the hollows, and sometimes the slopes, … hungry light mould; the wet flats, with rushes on clay, or peat: the herbage is altogether the coarsest of any extensive … parts of the county, where it is most easily procured, and peat in the northern and north-western districts, where coal …
A New History of London
… an ordinance, impowering the corporation to dig turf and peat upon any sequestered lands, or upon any grounds, gardens …
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