Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 3. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 417
... land which joins the peninfula to the continent is but 40 yards over ; which fituation , if properly improved , might render the town impregnable on the land fide . Bofton contains BOSWORTH , a town of Leicestershire in Eng . land ...
... land which joins the peninfula to the continent is but 40 yards over ; which fituation , if properly improved , might render the town impregnable on the land fide . Bofton contains BOSWORTH , a town of Leicestershire in Eng . land ...
Page 537
... land . The fea - breezes rule by day , and the land - breezes by night ; fo that , dividing their empire , they remain conftant as the seasons of the year , or course of the fun , on which they seem to depend : not but that they ap ...
... land . The fea - breezes rule by day , and the land - breezes by night ; fo that , dividing their empire , they remain conftant as the seasons of the year , or course of the fun , on which they seem to depend : not but that they ap ...
Page 712
... land throughout the year . " Although the winter here is fo exceffively rigid , in fummer the heat is fometimes difagreeable ; and in that feafon the weather is very moderate , and remark- ably ferene . It is but feldom foggy , fpeaking ...
... land throughout the year . " Although the winter here is fo exceffively rigid , in fummer the heat is fometimes difagreeable ; and in that feafon the weather is very moderate , and remark- ably ferene . It is but feldom foggy , fpeaking ...
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