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... form what are known as coal - measures , where beds of sandstone , shale , clay , and coal lie , one below another , to a great depth . The layers of coal , called seams , are usually very thin . They are wide enough , stretching under a.
... form what are known as coal - measures , where beds of sandstone , shale , clay , and coal lie , one below another , to a great depth . The layers of coal , called seams , are usually very thin . They are wide enough , stretching under a.
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Charlotte Maria S. Mason. thin . They are wide enough , stretching under a large tract of country , but are often only a few inches deep and ( with a single exception ) never more than six or eight feet . There is a seam in Staffordshire ...
Charlotte Maria S. Mason. thin . They are wide enough , stretching under a large tract of country , but are often only a few inches deep and ( with a single exception ) never more than six or eight feet . There is a seam in Staffordshire ...
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... stretches from Wigton to Whitehaven . Maryport , Workington , and Whitehaven are all busy towns among the collieries , which run out in some places two or three miles under the Irish Sea ; the colliers can hear the sea rolling overhead ...
... stretches from Wigton to Whitehaven . Maryport , Workington , and Whitehaven are all busy towns among the collieries , which run out in some places two or three miles under the Irish Sea ; the colliers can hear the sea rolling overhead ...
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... stretches of spongy bog . Now and then the moors swell into distinct hills , higher than the rest , as Pendle Hill ( 1830 feet ) , the highest in this part of the county , and Rivington Pike , near Bolton , the water brought from which ...
... stretches of spongy bog . Now and then the moors swell into distinct hills , higher than the rest , as Pendle Hill ( 1830 feet ) , the highest in this part of the county , and Rivington Pike , near Bolton , the water brought from which ...
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... stretches far into the land , and the tide comes in sudden , strong , and high , as into all the openings upon this western coast . At low water there is an endless stretch of white sand , called , near Morecambe , the Lancaster sands ...
... stretches far into the land , and the tide comes in sudden , strong , and high , as into all the openings upon this western coast . At low water there is an endless stretch of white sand , called , near Morecambe , the Lancaster sands ...
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20 ENGLISH MILES abbey Avon banks battle beautiful Bedford Black Country border Bristol Bristol Channel built busy town called castle cathedral chalk Cheshire Chippenham church cliffs coal coal-field coast Cornwall cotton dales Dartmoor deep Derbyshire Derwent Water Devon district Durham east England Estab London estuary Exmoor famous feet Fens flat flows Forest furnace green Herefordshire hills houses important towns iron island join Kent king lace Lancashire land lies Map Questions meadows mills moorland moors mountain mouth Name three towns Norman North Downs old town orchards Ouse palace pleasant port Queen rise river rock Roman round ruins Salisbury Plain Saxon seen Severn ships shire side Staffordshire Stanford's Geog stone streams streets stretch Surrey Sussex Taunton Dean Thames things town stands trees Trent tributary Vale valley villages walls watering-place White Horse Hill Wiltshire Yorkshire
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Seite 201 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 35 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Seite 177 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
Seite 205 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 24 - And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
Seite 19 - The rock, like something starting from a sleep, Took up the Lady's voice, and laughed again : That ancient Woman seated on Helm-crag Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-Scar, And the tall Steep of Silver-How sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone : Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the Lady's voice, — old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet; — back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice; And Kirkstone tossed...
Seite 141 - O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity!
Seite 24 - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping...
Seite 77 - MARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee ' ; The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land : And never home came she. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned...
Seite 5 - The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...