A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture, Zväzok 4

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Strana 553 - ... the cities of Syracuse and Binghamton. It is bounded on the north by Onondaga County, on the east by Madison and Chenango Counties, on the south by Broome and Tioga Counties, and on the west by Tompkins and Cayuga Counties. The county is rectangular in outline, its dimensions being approximately 25 miles from north to south and 20 miles from east to west. It embraces an area of 503 square miles, or 321,920 acres. Cortland County lies in the Allegheny Plateau, an elevated area occupying the southern...
Strana 469 - the roads of Oxfordshire," says an accurate observer, " were in a condition formidable to the bones of all who travelled on wheels. The two great turnpikes which crossed the country by Witney and Chipping Norton, by Henley and Wycombe, were repaired in some places with stones as large as they could be brought from the quarry, and, when broken, left so rough as to be calculated for dislocation rather than exercise.
Strana 165 - ... a black heath full of rabbits, having a narrow river running through it, with a small boggy close or two.
Strana 469 - Reading, etc. etc., and in every direction, and these lines necessarily intersect the county in every direction. The parish roads are greatly improved, but are still capable of much more. The turnpikes are very good, and, where gravel is to be had, excellent.
Strana 185 - ... and fairly ran off. Since that time, however, I have come on prodigiously, by constant practice, in the power and skill of walking backwards, without tripping up my own heels, feeling my head giddy, or treading my train out of the plaits — accidents very frequent among novices in that business ; and I have no doubt but that, in the course of a few months, I shall arrive at all possible perfection in the true court retrograde motion.
Strana 109 - MINE. 381 of ground, became now relaxed, so far as to allow models of Stowses, or small sham drawing apparatus, made of thin laths of wood, which the Bar-Master provided, to be used as the means of keeping possession of all the Meers but one, on a consolidated Mine : a custom which prevails...
Strana 191 - Cheese. — Take the night's cream, and put it to the morning's new milk, with the rennet ; when the curd is come it is not to be broken, as is done with other cheeses, but take it out with a soil dish...
Strana 459 - This red district, in respect of soil, may be considered as the glory of the county. It is deep, sound, friable, yet capable of tenacity ; and adapted to every plant that can be trusted to it by the industry of the cultivators."* The Town was long proverbial alike for its trade and its dirt.
Strana 333 - ... the acre. Indeed, if the calculation was fairly made, the occupiers are not benefited to the extent of half that sum, as the stock which they send to depasture upon these commons, is liable to so many diseases and accidents, as one year with another, nearly counterbalances any advantages which can be derived from possessing this right.
Strana 154 - In the new inclosure tills, drains are ordered by the commissioners, and provision made for their being properly kept up, which has already been found to be more effectual than the old laws of Sewers, of the neglect in the execution of which there have been great complaints in Nottinghamshire, as well as in the neighbouring counties.* The ARCHITECTURE of the county will be best described under the various heads, and there is perhaps no county in the kingdom that displays a greater variety, principally...

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