The Geology of the Weald: Parts of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants)H.M. Stationery Office, 1875 - 503 pages |
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Page 468 - WATER WORKS, for the Supply of Cities and Towns. With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as influencing Supplies of Water ; and Details of Engines and Pumping Machinery for raising Water.
Page 382 - Pilgrims'-lane, marked often by long lines of Kentish yews, — usually creeping half-way up the hills immediately above the line of cultivation, and under the highest crest, — passing here and there a solitary chapel or friendly monastery, but avoiding for the most part the towns and villages and the regular roads, probably for the same reason as " in the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byeways.
Page 450 - Itinerarium Curiosum, or an Account of the Antiquities and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature or Art observed in Travels through Great Britain ;' illustrated with copper-plates, fol., 1724. A second volume, or
Page 341 - The Manner of the Iron Work at the Furnace The iron-mine lies sometimes deeper, sometimes shallower, in the earth, from four to forty (feet) and upward. There are several sorts of mine, some hard, some gentle, some rich, some coarser. The iron-masters always mix different sorts of mine together, otherwise they will not melt to advantage. When the mine is brought in, they take...
Page 344 - This they take out, and giving it a few strokes with their Sledges, they carry it to a great weighty Hammer, raised likewise by the motion of a Water-wheel; where, applying it dexterously to the blows, they presently beat it a into thick short square. This they put into the Finery again...
Page 466 - GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY RESPECTING THE WATER-BEARING STRATA OF THE COUNTRY AROUND LONDON, with reference especially to the Water Supply of the Metropolis, and including some Remarks on Springs. By JOSEPH PRESTWICH, FGS, &o. 8vo, with a Map and Woodcuts, 8».
Page 342 - They expect that one man and a boy at the finery should make two tuns of iron in a week : two men at the chafery should take up, ie, make or work, five or six tun in a week. 3. If into the hearth where they work the iron...
Page 344 - Into the Finery, they first put their Pigs of Iron, placing three or four of them, together behind the fire, with a little of one end thrust into it. Where softening by degrees they stir and work them with long Bars of Iron, till the Metal runs together into a round Mass or Lump, which they call a Half Bloom.
Page 399 - In looking over a good county map we are surprised by seeing the systematic succession of places ending in -den, -holt, -wood, -hurst, -fald, and other words which invariably denote forests and outlying pastures in the woods. These are all in the Mark, and within them we may trace with equal certainty, the -hams, -tuns, -wor$igs and -stedes which imply settled habitations.
Page 285 - NL, whence these observations have been derived, and the only physical condition which I can imagine sufficient to account for the fragmentary detritus generally of the whole of those areas from which I have borrowed illustrations, is that of an elevation of great amount, such as would place the whole of the higher portions of this country in regions nf excessive cold.