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... whole ap- pearance of the river is altered , swelling as it does from side to side , and presenting a large expanse of water . This is the opportunity afforded for the ascent of salmon , and the descent to the sea of the two years old ...
... whole ap- pearance of the river is altered , swelling as it does from side to side , and presenting a large expanse of water . This is the opportunity afforded for the ascent of salmon , and the descent to the sea of the two years old ...
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... whole face of the country has been changed . Some of the old pollards , however , still remain , and there are also some fine specimens of them near Cranbourne Lodge , as well as some noble beech trees near the Royal Lodge . Windsor ...
... whole face of the country has been changed . Some of the old pollards , however , still remain , and there are also some fine specimens of them near Cranbourne Lodge , as well as some noble beech trees near the Royal Lodge . Windsor ...
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... whole scenery in the Burnham wood is charming , for the venerable Beeches are surrounded with hollies , junipers and heath , with an occasional mixture of furze and broom . Gray , the poet , delighted in the shade of these trees , and ...
... whole scenery in the Burnham wood is charming , for the venerable Beeches are surrounded with hollies , junipers and heath , with an occasional mixture of furze and broom . Gray , the poet , delighted in the shade of these trees , and ...
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... recovered contained five hun- dred and forty - five cubic feet , although the whole of the sap - wood had perished . The living remains of some of our ancient Oaks prove that they must once have been of a gigantic size.
... recovered contained five hun- dred and forty - five cubic feet , although the whole of the sap - wood had perished . The living remains of some of our ancient Oaks prove that they must once have been of a gigantic size.
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... feet from the ground , twenty - one feet round the trunk , the lower stem was ten feet from the ground , and the whole height of the tree sixty - five feet , and its arms extended forty- five feet . It contained one thousand feet of solid.
... feet from the ground , twenty - one feet round the trunk , the lower stem was ten feet from the ground , and the whole height of the tree sixty - five feet , and its arms extended forty- five feet . It contained one thousand feet of solid.
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