The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... pounds advanced a certain sum in 3 per cent . consols , a further sum in 4 per cents , and a proportion of the long annuities , the blank receipts which they receive for making the instalments on the several articles , are , when ...
... pounds advanced a certain sum in 3 per cent . consols , a further sum in 4 per cents , and a proportion of the long annuities , the blank receipts which they receive for making the instalments on the several articles , are , when ...
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... pounds weight ; or else by walking barefoot and blindfold over nine red hot ploughshares , laid at unequal dis- tances ; and if the party escaped unburt , he was adjudged innocent ; if not , he was con- demned as guilty . Water ordeal ...
... pounds weight ; or else by walking barefoot and blindfold over nine red hot ploughshares , laid at unequal dis- tances ; and if the party escaped unburt , he was adjudged innocent ; if not , he was con- demned as guilty . Water ordeal ...
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... pounds . Nothing like this occurs with respect to the species of the genus Helix : the fossil shells of this genus very much resemble those which are recent , and are not found of any considerable magnitude . The fossil shells of the ...
... pounds . Nothing like this occurs with respect to the species of the genus Helix : the fossil shells of this genus very much resemble those which are recent , and are not found of any considerable magnitude . The fossil shells of the ...
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... pounds . It runs with great rapidity , so as to escape the pursuit of common dogs , but falls speedily a victim to the greyhound , which often overtakes it before it has power to commence its flight , the preparation for which , in this ...
... pounds . It runs with great rapidity , so as to escape the pursuit of common dogs , but falls speedily a victim to the greyhound , which often overtakes it before it has power to commence its flight , the preparation for which , in this ...
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... pounds per quarter . These are reported to be equally prolific as they are large , and an ewe of this breed produced , at the age of two years , four young ones at a birth , and at the end of eleven months after , five more , The ...
... pounds per quarter . These are reported to be equally prolific as they are large , and an ewe of this breed produced , at the age of two years , four young ones at a birth , and at the end of eleven months after , five more , The ...
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