general view of the agruculture of shropshire1803 |
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acre agriculture alias Aston banks barley Bedston Board boats Bradford South breed Bridgnorth Brimstry Broseley bushels called canal cattle Caynham CHAP church Clee-hill clover Clun clunch coal common considerable cottages county of Salop cows crop cultivation Cundover Deanry district Ditto dung estates expense fair farmers farms feet grain grass grows hills horses hundred husbandry improvement inches inclined plane iron Ketley labourers land landlord late Lichen lime lock Ludlow manure meadows means miles Montgomeryshire Munslow navigation neighbourhood Newport North oats Observations Original Report Oswestry oxen parish pease perhaps persons pigs Pimhill plant plough Pontsbury potatoes produce Purslow quantity river Severn roads rock Salop sandstone SECT seeds sheep Shifnal shire Shrewsbury Shrewsbury canal Shropshire side situation soil sown spinal marrow Staffordshire stone Stottesden Sunday Sunday tenant tion towing-path turnips village waggon Wenlock wheat wood yards
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278 ページ - A double railway having been laid upon the inclined plane, the loaded boat in passing down, brought up another boat containing a load nearly equal to one-third part, of that which passed down. The velocities of the boats were regulated by a brake acting upon a large wheel placed upon the axis on which the ropes connected with the carriage, were coiled.
v ページ - ADVERTISEMENT. THE great desire that has been very generally expressed, for having the AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS of the KINGDOM reprinted, with the additional Communications which have been received since the ORIGINAL REPORTS were circulated, has induced the BOARD OP AGRICULTURE to come to a resolution of reprinting such as may appear on the whole fit for publication.
277 ページ - and instead of descending in the usual way, by locks, continued to bring the canal forward to an abrupt part of the bank, the skirts of which terminated on a level with the ironworks. At the top of this bank he built a small lock, and from the bottom of the lock, and down the face of the bank, he constructed an inclined plane, with a double iron railway. He then erected an upright frame of timber, in which, across the lock, was fixed a large wooden barrel ; round this barrel a rope was passed and...
5 ページ - A parish is that circuit of ground which is committed to the charge of one parson, or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
247 ページ - The fleeces upon the average may yield 2| pounds, of which one-half pound will be the breechens or coarse wool, and is sold distinct from the rest. The farmers of the hill country seem to think the greatest advantage they derive from the access of foreign stock is from the cross of the Southdown with the Long Mynd »heep; the produce they state to be as hardy and to bite as close as the Long Mynd sheep, and the weight of the carcass is increased.
iii ページ - Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest. Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the Most High hath ordained.
38 ページ - ... than on the western side, where the vales are narrow, and the high lands frequent and extensive, although the ground is not in general so stiff, and lies for the most part on a semi-rock full of fissures. The easterly winds prevail in spring, and those from the west in autumn...
38 ページ - I believe the easterly winds are the most regular, those from the west generally blowing for a series of years (five or six perhaps) strong and frequent, and then for somewhat near a similar space less often and less violent. The same may be said of wet and dry seasons; but the periods of both appear to be much shorter.
63 ページ - Coal - - • - 0 2 о 52 2 3 We see, then, that in near 53 yards there is only 1 yard 9 inches of coal, and no vein thicker than 2 feet ; but probably there are veins of more substance, whenever it shall be thought expedient to sink these pits deeper.
300 ページ - ... experience has now convinced us that in countries whose surfaces are rugged, or where it is difficult to obtain water for lockage, where the weight of the articles of produce is great in comparison with their bulk, and where they are mostly to be conveyed from a higher to a lower level, — that in those cases, iron rail-ways are in general preferable to a canal navigation.