Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... chalk brook . You can calculate it , if you like , by ascertaining the weight of lime in each gallon , and the average quantity of water which comes down the stream in a day ; and when your sum is done , you will be astonished to find ...
... chalk brook . You can calculate it , if you like , by ascertaining the weight of lime in each gallon , and the average quantity of water which comes down the stream in a day ; and when your sum is done , you will be astonished to find ...
Page 47
... chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
... chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
Page 48
... chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit or a clay - pit ...
... chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit or a clay - pit ...
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... Chalk . It may be traced from Dorsetshire through England to Cambridge , and thence , I believe , into Yorkshire . It may be traced again , I believe , all round the Weald of Kent and Sussex , from Hythe to Farnham -where it is ...
... Chalk . It may be traced from Dorsetshire through England to Cambridge , and thence , I believe , into Yorkshire . It may be traced again , I believe , all round the Weald of Kent and Sussex , from Hythe to Farnham -where it is ...
Page 84
... chalk downs . All readers , surely , know the white chalk , the special feature and the special pride of the south of England . All know its softly - rounded downs , its vast beech woods , its short and sweet turf , its snowy cliffs ...
... chalk downs . All readers , surely , know the white chalk , the special feature and the special pride of the south of England . All know its softly - rounded downs , its vast beech woods , its short and sweet turf , its snowy cliffs ...
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