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... many quotations , and whose valued friendship I owe to a common interest in the animals of this country . GROSMONT , PONTRILAS , HEREFORDSHIRE , July 1901 . GERALD LEIGHTON . CONTENTS . PART I. CHAP . IV . SNAKES IN PREFACE . xi.
... many quotations , and whose valued friendship I owe to a common interest in the animals of this country . GROSMONT , PONTRILAS , HEREFORDSHIRE , July 1901 . GERALD LEIGHTON . CONTENTS . PART I. CHAP . IV . SNAKES IN PREFACE . xi.
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... Pontrilas Court , Herefordshire , and is quoted in his own words : - " In the year 1846 or 1847 , I forget which , I was walking on Jansley Moor , near Matlock , Derbyshire , on a hot day in the month of August . I had caught an adder ...
... Pontrilas Court , Herefordshire , and is quoted in his own words : - " In the year 1846 or 1847 , I forget which , I was walking on Jansley Moor , near Matlock , Derbyshire , on a hot day in the month of August . I had caught an adder ...
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... Pontrilas station there is a farm called Penlan , just above the distillery works . Three hundred yards from the barn at that farm there used to be some rough brambles , just outside the Benath Wood . There was another person with me ...
... Pontrilas station there is a farm called Penlan , just above the distillery works . Three hundred yards from the barn at that farm there used to be some rough brambles , just outside the Benath Wood . There was another person with me ...
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... Pontrilas , Here- fordshire , July 17 , 1898 . Statement 3 .- " Some years ago I was walking with my younger brother to help to gather the cut fern in Kentchurch Park . About a yard off the path I saw an adder coiled up in the grass in ...
... Pontrilas , Here- fordshire , July 17 , 1898 . Statement 3 .- " Some years ago I was walking with my younger brother to help to gather the cut fern in Kentchurch Park . About a yard off the path I saw an adder coiled up in the grass in ...
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... Pontrilas railway station , on the Great Western line , to the village of Skenfrith , some six miles from the town of Monmouth . The distance between these two places is about eight miles , the valley running from east to west , having ...
... Pontrilas railway station , on the Great Western line , to the village of Skenfrith , some six miles from the town of Monmouth . The distance between these two places is about eight miles , the valley running from east to west , having ...
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