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... slate . Beautiful , not only for the compactness and deli- cacy of its texture , and for the regularity and smooth- ness of its surface , but still more for its colour . Whether merely warm grey , as when dry , or bright purple , as ...
... slate . Beautiful , not only for the compactness and deli- cacy of its texture , and for the regularity and smooth- ness of its surface , but still more for its colour . Whether merely warm grey , as when dry , or bright purple , as ...
Page 127
... slate roof there need be no want of rich colour in an English landscape . But most beautiful is the hue of slate , when , shining wet in the sunshine after a summer shower , its blue is brought out in rich contrast by golden spots of ...
... slate roof there need be no want of rich colour in an English landscape . But most beautiful is the hue of slate , when , shining wet in the sunshine after a summer shower , its blue is brought out in rich contrast by golden spots of ...
Page 128
... slate , and then analyse it , you will find its mineral constituents to be exactly those of a fine , rich , and tenacious clay . The slate districts ( at least in Snowdon ) carry such a rich clay on them , wherever it is not masked by ...
... slate , and then analyse it , you will find its mineral constituents to be exactly those of a fine , rich , and tenacious clay . The slate districts ( at least in Snowdon ) carry such a rich clay on them , wherever it is not masked by ...
Page 129
... slate mountain being worked at both sides in two opposite valleys — or the upper and newer slates of Tremadoc , lie other and newer slate - bearing beds of inferior quality , and belonging to a yet newer world , the " Silurian . " To ...
... slate mountain being worked at both sides in two opposite valleys — or the upper and newer slates of Tremadoc , lie other and newer slate - bearing beds of inferior quality , and belonging to a yet newer world , the " Silurian . " To ...
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... slate . And how were they changed ? I think I cannot teach my readers this more simply than by asking them first to buy Sheet No. LXXVIII . S.E. ( Bangor ) of the Snowdon district of the K 2 VI . ] 131 THE SLATES ON THE ROOF .
... slate . And how were they changed ? I think I cannot teach my readers this more simply than by asking them first to buy Sheet No. LXXVIII . S.E. ( Bangor ) of the Snowdon district of the K 2 VI . ] 131 THE SLATES ON THE ROOF .
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