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... latter eight hundred and eighty - eight , above the level of the fea . Croagh- Patrick is a vaft ridge , the fummit of which appears to the eye a monstrous cone , perfectly regular , and is difcernable at the distance of fixty miles ...
... latter eight hundred and eighty - eight , above the level of the fea . Croagh- Patrick is a vaft ridge , the fummit of which appears to the eye a monstrous cone , perfectly regular , and is difcernable at the distance of fixty miles ...
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... latter . Thus the wheat is inferior in weight and colour to that of dryer countries ; the crops are liable to be injured by weeds ; the labours interrupted , and the product damaged , by unfeafonable rains . Be- fides , how great foever ...
... latter . Thus the wheat is inferior in weight and colour to that of dryer countries ; the crops are liable to be injured by weeds ; the labours interrupted , and the product damaged , by unfeafonable rains . Be- fides , how great foever ...
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... latter , afforded the opportunity of a fhort navigation from Britain to the Irish coasts , very fhort in comparison of the voyages now known to be performed by favage tribes , in veffels framed flightly of wood and covered with leather ...
... latter , afforded the opportunity of a fhort navigation from Britain to the Irish coasts , very fhort in comparison of the voyages now known to be performed by favage tribes , in veffels framed flightly of wood and covered with leather ...
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... latter part of the eighteenth century , by James Mac Pherson , a Scottish writer . Of these , com- posed of Irish affairs , the most genuine , given by the ingenious Doctor Young , in the firft volume of the Royal Irish Academy's ...
... latter part of the eighteenth century , by James Mac Pherson , a Scottish writer . Of these , com- posed of Irish affairs , the most genuine , given by the ingenious Doctor Young , in the firft volume of the Royal Irish Academy's ...
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... latter country is by adoption entirely English , by which alfo is occafioned a much nearer affimilation of the oral fpeech . No other than fimilarity of language could be admitted as a proof of identity of origin in the Irish and ...
... latter country is by adoption entirely English , by which alfo is occafioned a much nearer affimilation of the oral fpeech . No other than fimilarity of language could be admitted as a proof of identity of origin in the Irish and ...
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