 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 páginas
...the country is one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but...cultivable only by means of immense labour expended in cutting drains across it in various directions. Into these the water is raised by mieans of windmills,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1818 - 546 páginas
...plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight, interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges gf comparatively high land, but in all its northern portion...creep through it to the sea ; and rendered habitable only by means of immense labour expended in cutting drains through it in various directions. Into these... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 páginas
...beyond the reach of sight ; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of.comparatively high land, but in all its northern portion presenting...cultivable only by means of immense labour expended in cutting drains across it in various directions. Into these the water is raised by means of windmills,... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 páginas
...country is one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight ; interrupted, on the southern side, by one or two ridges of comparatively high land ;...This whole tract is naturally a marsh, subject to he laid under water in rainy seasons, by the rivers which creep through it to the sea ; and rendered... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 334 páginas
...writer, " is one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but...just lift the villages seated upon them above the genera level. This whole tract is naturally a marsh, subject to be laid under water in rainy seasons... | |
 | England - 1840 - 250 páginas
...writer to be "one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight ; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but...cultivable only by means of immense labour expended in cutting drains across it in various directions. Into these the water is raised by means of windmills,... | |
 | 1851 - 658 páginas
...writer to be " one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but in all its northern portion presenting only some smsll elevations, which just lift the villages seated upon them above the general level. This whole... | |
 | 1856 - 972 páginas
...reach of sight; interrupted on the S side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but in its N portion presenting only some small elevations which...villages seated upon them above the general level. The whole tract is naturally a marsh, subject to be laid under water in rainy seasons by the rivers... | |
 | 1862 - 900 páginas
...the E. of Huntingdonshire to the W. of Norfolk, and N. through the SE division of Lincolnshire. It is subject to be laid under water in rainy seasons by the rivers which creep through it to the sea, and is rendered habitable and cultivable only by means of immense labour expended in cutting drains across... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 702 páginas
...the country is one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but...naturally a marsh, 'subject to be laid under water rS rainy seasons by the rivers which creep through it to the sea, and rendered habitable and cultivable... | |
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The face of the whole district is described by a modern writer to be "one vast plain, stretching beyond the reach of sight ; interrupted on the southern side by one or two ridges of comparatively high land, but in all its northern portion presenting only... 