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From a cape named after that officer , a little beyond that point , land was seen twenty or twentyfive miles to the northward , and stretching from west to north - east . Was this land insular or continental , were the party coasting a ...
From a cape named after that officer , a little beyond that point , land was seen twenty or twentyfive miles to the northward , and stretching from west to north - east . Was this land insular or continental , were the party coasting a ...
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There is a further cause of higher and more genial temperature in lands whose soil is dry , in their exemption from ... which is composed of ill - cultivated wet land , may , by thorough - draining , be converted to land of the second ...
There is a further cause of higher and more genial temperature in lands whose soil is dry , in their exemption from ... which is composed of ill - cultivated wet land , may , by thorough - draining , be converted to land of the second ...
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Sir James cites an experiment made by himself at Netherby in 1838 , on eight acres of the poorest and wettest land , the surface of which is about five inches of black earth of a peaty quality , and the subsoil a weeping retentive clay ...
Sir James cites an experiment made by himself at Netherby in 1838 , on eight acres of the poorest and wettest land , the surface of which is about five inches of black earth of a peaty quality , and the subsoil a weeping retentive clay ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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