The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River |
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The river enlarges as it approaches Letchlade , a town in Gloucestershire , situated on the confines of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , and receiving the waters of the Lech and the Coln , it becomes capable of navigating vessels from ninety ...
The river enlarges as it approaches Letchlade , a town in Gloucestershire , situated on the confines of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , and receiving the waters of the Lech and the Coln , it becomes capable of navigating vessels from ninety ...
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Here the Thames is so much encreased by the streams which flow into it as to be capable of receiving vessels from ninety to an hundred tons burthen . 1 1 insa 4. ۲۰ 1 .. ! . Drawn by 5. INGLESHAM LOCK .
Here the Thames is so much encreased by the streams which flow into it as to be capable of receiving vessels from ninety to an hundred tons burthen . 1 1 insa 4. ۲۰ 1 .. ! . Drawn by 5. INGLESHAM LOCK .
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... as an exile , at Louvain , in the Low Countries , about five years afterwards ; in consequence , as some historians mention , of a wound he received from the lusks of a wild boar , while he was engaged in the pursuits of the chase .
... as an exile , at Louvain , in the Low Countries , about five years afterwards ; in consequence , as some historians mention , of a wound he received from the lusks of a wild boar , while he was engaged in the pursuits of the chase .
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The death of this nobleman gave a curious subject for the ridiculous superstition of those days , -in the coincidence of the crest , of the Veres , Earls Oxford , which was the very animal from whose ferocity he received the wound that ...
The death of this nobleman gave a curious subject for the ridiculous superstition of those days , -in the coincidence of the crest , of the Veres , Earls Oxford , which was the very animal from whose ferocity he received the wound that ...
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It has received considerable additions since his time , and will reward the attention of the visitor .-- The Clarendon Printing - house , which was built in the year 1711 with the profits arising from the sale of Lord Clarendon's ...
It has received considerable additions since his time , and will reward the attention of the visitor .-- The Clarendon Printing - house , which was built in the year 1711 with the profits arising from the sale of Lord Clarendon's ...
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| Title | The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River Volume 1 of The Thames; Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | Samuel Owen |
| Illustrated by | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 20, 2007 |
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