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... tons . A Time Race . Entrance , £ 2 . THE GOLDEN OARS , value 30 Guineas , for four - oared Gigs , to be pulled by Gentlemen . Entrance , £ 1 . A PRIZE of £ 7 for four - oared Yawls , the property of persons residing between Annalong ...
... tons . A Time Race . Entrance , £ 2 . THE GOLDEN OARS , value 30 Guineas , for four - oared Gigs , to be pulled by Gentlemen . Entrance , £ 1 . A PRIZE of £ 7 for four - oared Yawls , the property of persons residing between Annalong ...
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... tons weight . It stands upon an elevated shoulder of the mountain , which is separated from the summit of Sliev Bân by a valley . It is difficult to ac- count for its isolated position : like the reel in a bottle , the wonder is how it ...
... tons weight . It stands upon an elevated shoulder of the mountain , which is separated from the summit of Sliev Bân by a valley . It is difficult to ac- count for its isolated position : like the reel in a bottle , the wonder is how it ...
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... tons , which stands upon the summit of a projecting cliff nearly midway up the mountain . How it got there is one of the buried secrets of the past ; if placed there by human labour , if indeed ' the work of Druid hands of old , ' it ...
... tons , which stands upon the summit of a projecting cliff nearly midway up the mountain . How it got there is one of the buried secrets of the past ; if placed there by human labour , if indeed ' the work of Druid hands of old , ' it ...
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... tons could come ; but as Rosstrevor carries on no trade , only an ROSSTREVOR PIER . occasional fishing smack , pleasure yacht , or schooner with coals , enters . It is surrounded by about a dozen of well - built houses . Extending from ...
... tons could come ; but as Rosstrevor carries on no trade , only an ROSSTREVOR PIER . occasional fishing smack , pleasure yacht , or schooner with coals , enters . It is surrounded by about a dozen of well - built houses . Extending from ...
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... tons burden , and having from 400 to 600 men and boys attached to them , are employed dredging oysters for London alone , where from 14,000 to 16,000 bushels a year are consumed . Oysters formed a great luxury with the Romans , and , as ...
... tons burden , and having from 400 to 600 men and boys attached to them , are employed dredging oysters for London alone , where from 14,000 to 16,000 bushels a year are consumed . Oysters formed a great luxury with the Romans , and , as ...
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Page 257 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
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Page 33 - In the descent southward, near the bottom, one is forced to slide down a sort of thatch, composed of furze, long grass, and juniper. St. Donard, a disciple of St. Patrick, is said to have spent the life of a hermit on this mountain, and built a cell, or oratory, on the top of it, towards the close of the fifth century.
Page 160 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 255 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 14 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
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