British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: With Some Account of British Wild White CattleTrübner and Company, 1880 - 258 pages |
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... woods and glens , which we now traverse so securely , were infested to such an extent with ferocious animals , that a journey of any length was , on this account , attended with considerable danger . Packs of wolves , which usually ...
... woods and glens , which we now traverse so securely , were infested to such an extent with ferocious animals , that a journey of any length was , on this account , attended with considerable danger . Packs of wolves , which usually ...
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... woods which then covered a great part of these dis- tricts are all gone , and so also are the thick forests which , outside of but connected with them , skirted these higher grounds . The advance of man and the progress of cultivation ...
... woods which then covered a great part of these dis- tricts are all gone , and so also are the thick forests which , outside of but connected with them , skirted these higher grounds . The advance of man and the progress of cultivation ...
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... wood , that gave it the name of woodlands . " Leland , about 1536 , though he speaks of the woods being then much reduced , con- firms this , and even carries this country of woods B 2 INTRODUCTION . 5.
... wood , that gave it the name of woodlands . " Leland , about 1536 , though he speaks of the woods being then much reduced , con- firms this , and even carries this country of woods B 2 INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... woods farther south . He says : " Of ancient tyme all the quarters of the country about Lichefeild were forrest and wild ground . " * That would bring the Stafford- shire woodlands close up to the purlieus of Charn- wood Forest , in ...
... woods farther south . He says : " Of ancient tyme all the quarters of the country about Lichefeild were forrest and wild ground . " * That would bring the Stafford- shire woodlands close up to the purlieus of Charn- wood Forest , in ...
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... goodly forest , full of woods , red - deer and fallow , wild swine , and all manner of wild beasts . " * Whitaker , " History of Whalley , " p . 171 . As for Scotland , we can scarcely over - estimate 8 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS .
... goodly forest , full of woods , red - deer and fallow , wild swine , and all manner of wild beasts . " * Whitaker , " History of Whalley , " p . 171 . As for Scotland , we can scarcely over - estimate 8 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS .
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