Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... river Foy , which brought up veffels from Fowey , before it was choaked up with fand coming from the tin - mines , and therefore its once flourishing trade is decayed ; but it holds the bufhelage of coals , falt , malt , and corn , in ...
... river Foy , which brought up veffels from Fowey , before it was choaked up with fand coming from the tin - mines , and therefore its once flourishing trade is decayed ; but it holds the bufhelage of coals , falt , malt , and corn , in ...
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... rivers of hell , fignifying oblivion or forgetfulness ; its waters having , according to poetic fiction , the ... river Shannon . It contains 4000 houfes , 21 parishes , 5 baronies , 2 boroughs , and fends 6 members to parliament ...
... rivers of hell , fignifying oblivion or forgetfulness ; its waters having , according to poetic fiction , the ... river Shannon . It contains 4000 houfes , 21 parishes , 5 baronies , 2 boroughs , and fends 6 members to parliament ...
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... river Belann , fig . 3. ( As our author could find no fatif- factory examples in any English author , he copied this ... rivers fhould then be made , by which it will be difcovered , that the fhort- eft way between the rivers is by the ...
... river Belann , fig . 3. ( As our author could find no fatif- factory examples in any English author , he copied this ... rivers fhould then be made , by which it will be difcovered , that the fhort- eft way between the rivers is by the ...
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... river above the first limit , drive a stake down close to the ground at a ; and place your station - ftaff upon it , obferving where the hairs interfect the vane , which will be at 4 feet 10 inches ; then , laying off upon the line oz ...
... river above the first limit , drive a stake down close to the ground at a ; and place your station - ftaff upon it , obferving where the hairs interfect the vane , which will be at 4 feet 10 inches ; then , laying off upon the line oz ...
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... river nearly at the fame inftant of time . " The principal limits of the levelling ( fays Mr Adams ) being now determined and fixed , it only remains to find the level between the limits , according to the methods already pointed out ...
... river nearly at the fame inftant of time . " The principal limits of the levelling ( fays Mr Adams ) being now determined and fixed , it only remains to find the level between the limits , according to the methods already pointed out ...
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