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... bears plentifully one year , it is generally barren the next . In warm countries the beech - mast would probably produce oil in large quantities , but its use is super- OIL FROM BEECH - MAST . 23 seded by the 22 THE BEECH IN AUTUMN .
... bears plentifully one year , it is generally barren the next . In warm countries the beech - mast would probably produce oil in large quantities , but its use is super- OIL FROM BEECH - MAST . 23 seded by the 22 THE BEECH IN AUTUMN .
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... probably owing to the expensive manner in which it was set on foot , the idea should not be abandoned , that this oil may yet be made to advantage in favourable years . It is at the present time the practice of the peasants in Britany ...
... probably owing to the expensive manner in which it was set on foot , the idea should not be abandoned , that this oil may yet be made to advantage in favourable years . It is at the present time the practice of the peasants in Britany ...
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... probably , from its appearance , a roach - half digested , and eight inches and a quarter in a length . There were also pellets of hair an inch and a quarter long - apparently the hair of the field mouse - the scales of the common snake ...
... probably , from its appearance , a roach - half digested , and eight inches and a quarter in a length . There were also pellets of hair an inch and a quarter long - apparently the hair of the field mouse - the scales of the common snake ...
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... probably begin- ning to lay their eggs about the middle of March , as on the 8th of April I found discarded egg - shells under their nests . The cry of the young birds is very pe- culiar , resembling the sound of distant hammering . I ...
... probably begin- ning to lay their eggs about the middle of March , as on the 8th of April I found discarded egg - shells under their nests . The cry of the young birds is very pe- culiar , resembling the sound of distant hammering . I ...
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... probably swallow everything as they catch it , which they do occasionally while on the wing . I delight in watching the silent manner in which a Heron quits its nest , or the branch of a tree on which it has settled . When it is ...
... probably swallow everything as they catch it , which they do occasionally while on the wing . I delight in watching the silent manner in which a Heron quits its nest , or the branch of a tree on which it has settled . When it is ...
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