The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... Hence clay soils are extremely diffi- cult to improve by this operation ; nor can such be reclaimed but by a very expensive course of draining , manuring , and breaking into a crumbly state : certainly clay soils may be formed into ...
... Hence clay soils are extremely diffi- cult to improve by this operation ; nor can such be reclaimed but by a very expensive course of draining , manuring , and breaking into a crumbly state : certainly clay soils may be formed into ...
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... hence the former are more readily pervaded and divided with subacid liquors ; but the latter , through a peculiar kind of interwoven texture , are with great difficulty torn asunder , and long resist the power of the same menstruum ...
... hence the former are more readily pervaded and divided with subacid liquors ; but the latter , through a peculiar kind of interwoven texture , are with great difficulty torn asunder , and long resist the power of the same menstruum ...
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... Hence it is thought that those fossils , called entrochi , are speci- mens of this species of coral . ISLAND , or ICELAND , crystal , a body fa- mous among the writers of optics , for its pro- perty of a double refraction ; but impro ...
... Hence it is thought that those fossils , called entrochi , are speci- mens of this species of coral . ISLAND , or ICELAND , crystal , a body fa- mous among the writers of optics , for its pro- perty of a double refraction ; but impro ...
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... hence it is called " the wind of fifty days . " Tra- vellers who have experienced the effect of it have described it as a poisonous wind . When it begins to blow , the atmosphere assumes an alarming appearance . The sky , at other times ...
... hence it is called " the wind of fifty days . " Tra- vellers who have experienced the effect of it have described it as a poisonous wind . When it begins to blow , the atmosphere assumes an alarming appearance . The sky , at other times ...
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... hence the King never dies , but his right vests ea instanti in his heir ; so that Hall says , there can be no interregnum , and the death of the King is called the demise of the crown , which or- dinarily means only a transfer from one ...
... hence the King never dies , but his right vests ea instanti in his heir ; so that Hall says , there can be no interregnum , and the death of the King is called the demise of the crown , which or- dinarily means only a transfer from one ...
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