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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the best state of cultivation, and in others comparatively wild and barren. The scenery is enlivened by several rivers …
Magna Britannia
… fallax Mountainous parts of Devon Mr. Slater. furfuraceus Wild Tor rock, five miles from Chagford Rev. Mr. Newberry. …
Magna Britannia
… find the tamarix Gallica growing in what appeared to be a wild state, either on St. Michael's Mount or elsewhere, … willow-trees. Tonkin mentions fig-trees as growing in a wild state in the parish of St. Gorran, and says, that in … the horns of the moose deer, and those of the Urus or wild ox. We call it scientifical, in reference to the times …
Magna Britannia
… the speckled diver *; the smew, ( mergus albellus); the wild swan *, ( anas cygnus ferus); scoter duck *, ( anas …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… game; partridges are to be seen in great numbers, and wild-ducks frequent the lake. The soil, though varying … and bays, and frequented at all seasons of the year by wild geese, ducks, and a variety of other waterfowl. The most …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Gloucester road in Malswick. In the early 20th century the wild daffodils which flower in and around Newent attracted …
Old and New London
… and lost opportunities. This was about the time that, by a wild impulse, one day, at the corner of Chancery Lane, the … son of a tinker, at Elstow, near Bedford, and grew up a wild, dissolute youth, but seems to have received early …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… completion, and in 1698 Catherine, her daughter Catherine Wild, her stepdaughter Carolina Scrymsher, and Stephens's …