Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England;: Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland, Volume 2R. Blamire, 1788 |
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Página 138 - ... poured into a mould, filled all the hollows of it, lying in some parts thirty or forty feet deep, reducing the whole to one level surface.