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As examples of the ancient dragons of the land , our author selects the great herbivorous Iguanodon of Mantell , and its contemporary and probable foe , the almost equally huge carnivorous Megalosaurus of the Dean of Westminster .
As examples of the ancient dragons of the land , our author selects the great herbivorous Iguanodon of Mantell , and its contemporary and probable foe , the almost equally huge carnivorous Megalosaurus of the Dean of Westminster .
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But the great variety which exists in the terms on which land is occupied in this coun- try renders this a very complicated subject . We hope to be able to recur to it on some future occasion . Without doubt a general accumulation of ...
But the great variety which exists in the terms on which land is occupied in this coun- try renders this a very complicated subject . We hope to be able to recur to it on some future occasion . Without doubt a general accumulation of ...
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The minister of a lowland parish of Angus enters into an amusing comparison of the state of the country at two periods , both of which he had witnessed himself :C In 1760 land was rented at 6s . an acre ; in 1790 land is rented at 30s .
The minister of a lowland parish of Angus enters into an amusing comparison of the state of the country at two periods , both of which he had witnessed himself :C In 1760 land was rented at 6s . an acre ; in 1790 land is rented at 30s .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 82 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1847 |
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