The Quarterly Review, Volumes 86-87John Murray, 1850 |
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... soil , and other circumstances , though capable of vast changes by culture - all this , while furnish- ing much of curious illustration and analogy , can only slightly represent to us what per- tains to the physical history of the human ...
... soil , and other circumstances , though capable of vast changes by culture - all this , while furnish- ing much of curious illustration and analogy , can only slightly represent to us what per- tains to the physical history of the human ...
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... soil ; but when all is done , there will yet re- main the void of time beyond , in which genius and diligence are alike lost and fruitless . certain astronomical periods ascertained ; and a chronology of much exactness carried back to a ...
... soil ; but when all is done , there will yet re- main the void of time beyond , in which genius and diligence are alike lost and fruitless . certain astronomical periods ascertained ; and a chronology of much exactness carried back to a ...
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... soil , composing the meadows , can be Plough ploughing two furrows at one time , ' made without forming embankments , or by which still lingers in the midland counties . pumping , or by resort to other expensive means . Nor must we ...
... soil , composing the meadows , can be Plough ploughing two furrows at one time , ' made without forming embankments , or by which still lingers in the midland counties . pumping , or by resort to other expensive means . Nor must we ...
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... soil , we include , for our present water is the main point , and the bottom- purpose , the whole depth to which ... soil beyond that which they are able to retain by at- traction . The water of drainage in any soil will stand at a level ...
... soil , we include , for our present water is the main point , and the bottom- purpose , the whole depth to which ... soil beyond that which they are able to retain by at- traction . The water of drainage in any soil will stand at a level ...
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... soil . In the last stated example , the open rock under the soil affords frequent and pretty uniform channels of escape for the water ; hence the obvious suggestion of the frequent drain system . " C clear and unaffected , and we think ...
... soil . In the last stated example , the open rock under the soil affords frequent and pretty uniform channels of escape for the water ; hence the obvious suggestion of the frequent drain system . " C clear and unaffected , and we think ...
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