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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… 10 ft. and 12 ft. above O.D. The fenland was formerly peat-covered, the greater part of which, on the S.E., has now … for punts or small boats bringing sedge, rushes, turf, peat and arable crops from the fens to the village. (Tithe …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… spread over, to a great extent, with tracts of peat-moss, affording an inexhaustible supply of fuel; large … sandy. Several of the mosses, all of which abound with peat, have been reclaimed, affording excellent crops. About …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… several parishes in the northern extremity of the county; peat earth, extending through the whole of the fen district; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… where it may to some extent have been covered with peat before modern drainage, accounts for the paucity of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… timber, brick, tile, and other building materials; lime, peat-ashes and manure, of all sorts. They will find new …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… agency. The remains of the forest are covered by a bed of peat, and are distinguished by an abundance of pholas candida … turbary; and at low water of spring tides, vast beds of peat or turf become partially visible, extending along the … sand, and varying in depth from a few inches to a foot. Peat, however, generally occupies the hollows, and sometimes …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… to Machynlleth. There is a turbary in the parish, where peat is obtained for the consumption of the adjoining … bordering on that of New Radnor, is a low mound of dark peat earth, called the Black Mixed; and near the junction of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… they are for the most part of an inferior quality; peat is here found in all the hollows, and sometimes upon the … great abundance: in the parts remote from the coal tract, peat and turf are frequently used. The mineral productions …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… admixtures of sandy loam, rounded pebbles, shivery gravel, peat, &c., peculiarly suited for the culture of barley, peas, … nothing of value either as pasturage or for hay: this peat is found even on the summit of Carnedd Llewelyn, but is … their sterility is very great: the hollows and slopes upon peat, or clay, are the chief spots which produce any herbage …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bolton-le-Sands, to this place, the line proceeds over a peat-moss, twenty feet in depth, by an embankment which is …
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