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... acres in extent , railed off from the adjoining fields , presented itself , trenched in every direction , and heaped with mounds of rubbish . A crowd of visitors were lounging about , looking down into the deep pits and trenches with a ...
... acres in extent , railed off from the adjoining fields , presented itself , trenched in every direction , and heaped with mounds of rubbish . A crowd of visitors were lounging about , looking down into the deep pits and trenches with a ...
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... acres which the Duke of Cleveland has leased to them , they cannot avoid opening up remains which will probably help to elucidate the stone puzzle they have already exposed . As I moved away from my minute examination of the ruins , I ...
... acres which the Duke of Cleveland has leased to them , they cannot avoid opening up remains which will probably help to elucidate the stone puzzle they have already exposed . As I moved away from my minute examination of the ruins , I ...
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... acres . irrigated with the flow of the sewage of about 80,000 of the population . This land receives the sewage from ... acre - it is now worth £ 30 an acre . This transmutation of desert land into pasture , off which as many as five ...
... acres . irrigated with the flow of the sewage of about 80,000 of the population . This land receives the sewage from ... acre - it is now worth £ 30 an acre . This transmutation of desert land into pasture , off which as many as five ...
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... acre here employed has tended to make agricul- turists doubt the possibility of applying this kind of manure profitably in other places . But there is no necessity for these heavy dressings ; they are employed on these meadows as a ...
... acre here employed has tended to make agricul- turists doubt the possibility of applying this kind of manure profitably in other places . But there is no necessity for these heavy dressings ; they are employed on these meadows as a ...
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... acres of grass and to two acres of ploughed land , and distributed by means of a gutta - percha hose . The result is that these fields have been improved in value from 558. an acre to £ 5 . 10s . , whilst the produce has been immensely ...
... acres of grass and to two acres of ploughed land , and distributed by means of a gutta - percha hose . The result is that these fields have been improved in value from 558. an acre to £ 5 . 10s . , whilst the produce has been immensely ...
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