Travels Through the Low Countries: Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological, & C. Also, A Catalogue of Plants, Found Spontaneously Growing in Those Parts, and Their Virtues, Volume 1

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J. Walthoe, 1738 - Europe - 547 pages

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Page 255 - unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they return again ; we
Page 320 - nigh unto it, wherein he dwelt; and that in his time it was carried by the angels from thence to the mountain of the two brothers, where they placed it as
Page 101 - which, either by fome deluge, inundation, earthquake, or fome fuch other means, came to be thrown to that place, and there to be filled with
Page 106 - (to continue that abufive name) have no parts of a different texture from the rock or quarry they are taken, that is, that there is no
Page 105 - or removed. Whence it will follow, that if the mountains were not from the beginning, either the world is a great deal older than is
Page 47 - for a kind of impregnable retreat when armies march that way : for, being acquainted with all the ways in it, they carry into it whatsoever they would have fafe, as well their
Page 346 - whereof, with a little of the head of the root cut off, they cat raw with
Page 319 - of our Lady of Loretto; and thence again they carried it, by reafon of the many robberies committed, to a mountain of two brothers in the
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