| British empire - 1847 - 856 páginas
...cultivate which he pares and turns the ground, and rents a cottage at fifty or sixty shillings a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen." Some of the mines are truly grand undertakings. The Consolidated Mines, the largest of the Cornish... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 páginas
...ground, and rents a cottage at fifty or sixty shillings a year, with a right of turf fuel, which ho cuts and prepares himself. Many miners have tolerable...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen." Here we conclude. Between the Tavy on the north, and the Eddystonc on the south ; between Ivy Bridge... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 páginas
...burns the ground, and i. .its a cottage at fifty or sixty shillings a year, with a right of turf fucl, which he cuts and prepares himself. Many miners have...tolerable gardens, and some are able to do their own earpentry work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen." Here we conelude. Betwcen the Tavy... | |
| 1856 - 586 páginas
...cultivate which he pares and turns the ground, and rents a cottage at fifty or sixty shillings a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen." Some of the mines are truly grand undertakings. The Consolidated Mines, the largest of the Cornish... | |
| John Thomas Blight - 1860 - 206 páginas
...cultivate which he pares and turns the ground, and rents a cottage at fifty or sixty shillings a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen. Nature has distributed mineral wealth in cracks or fissures of rock, called lodes, which, in Cornwall,... | |
| 1862 - 500 páginas
...potatoes, to cultivate which he pares and bums the ground, and rents a cottage at 50s. or 60s. a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen" — (Cyrus Redding). broad-brimmed hat, or helmet, designed to protect the head from blows against... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1871 - 222 páginas
...potatoes, to cultivate which he pares and burns the ground, and rents a cottage at 50s. or 60s. a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...and near the coast others are expert fishermen"-— (Cyrus Redding). The tourist who descends into a mine will have to assume a fitting attire : — a... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 238 páginas
...potatoes, to cultivate which he pares and burns the ground, and rents a cottage at 60s. or 60s. a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...carpentry work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen"—(Cyrus Redding). broad-brimmed hat, or helmet, designed to protect the head from blows... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1885 - 274 páginas
...potatoes, to cultivate which he pares and burns the ground, and rents a cottage at 60s. or 60s. a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen" — (Cyrus Redding). broad-brimmed hat, or helmet, designed to protect the head from blows against... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1904 - 352 páginas
...potatoes, to cultivate which he pares and burns the ground, and rents a cottage at 50s. or 60s. a year, with a right of turf fuel, which he cuts and prepares...work, and near the coast others are expert fishermen" — (Gyms Redding'). Some interesting details relative to Cornish mines and miners will be found in... | |
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