A Six Months Tour Through the North of England: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, ... In Four VolumesW. Strahan; W. Nicoll; T. Cadell; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1771 |
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... also of cultivated inclosures : Art has judiciously aimed at nothing more than enabling the fpectator to view these beauties to the best advantage . The first point to which we were conducted , is a feat in a small circular plot , among ...
... also of cultivated inclosures : Art has judiciously aimed at nothing more than enabling the fpectator to view these beauties to the best advantage . The first point to which we were conducted , is a feat in a small circular plot , among ...
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... also tried , and with great fuccefs . In 1766 he had an acre and half on a cold , wet , clay foil : It was well dunged , and plowed twice : Turneps the preceding crop . The cabbage feed was fown the beginning of Auguft the year before ...
... also tried , and with great fuccefs . In 1766 he had an acre and half on a cold , wet , clay foil : It was well dunged , and plowed twice : Turneps the preceding crop . The cabbage feed was fown the beginning of Auguft the year before ...
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... also particularly atten- tive to the management of his fences : His favourite hedge is the holly ; he fows the feed in beds , and tranfplants them into rows for hedges ; I measured fome , that grew upon a moist foil , fix feet high , in ...
... also particularly atten- tive to the management of his fences : His favourite hedge is the holly ; he fows the feed in beds , and tranfplants them into rows for hedges ; I measured fome , that grew upon a moist foil , fix feet high , in ...
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... also a very great public grievance . And that therefore any contrivance , which would render the labour tolerable , and put it in the power of all occupiers of corn farms to have their corn fepa- rated from the ftraw , in fuch ...
... also a very great public grievance . And that therefore any contrivance , which would render the labour tolerable , and put it in the power of all occupiers of corn farms to have their corn fepa- rated from the ftraw , in fuch ...
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... thick , and its four pofts are of oak , about four inches fquare ; the feet , handles , fliding frame , cross bars , & c . are also of oak : The whole VOL . II . E machine machine can be afforded complete for two pounds two fhillings [ 49 ]
... thick , and its four pofts are of oak , about four inches fquare ; the feet , handles , fliding frame , cross bars , & c . are also of oak : The whole VOL . II . E machine machine can be afforded complete for two pounds two fhillings [ 49 ]
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