 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Ireland - 1830 - 524 pages
...others; and in fact, is frequently the substitute for clothing, bedding, and, in part, shelter. If it had not been for the bog, the measures taken in former...them to live under severe privations of another kind. If they were driven to desperation this year, and were banished to the inhospitable wastes and mountains,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others ; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...to live under severe privations of another kind." — (Ireland and its Economy, p. 28.) In corroboration of this statement we may observe, that in many... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 782 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others ; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...to live under severe privations of another kind." — (Ireland and its Economy, p. 28.) In corroboration of this statement we may observe, that in many... | |
 | Richard Cowling Taylor - Coal - 1848 - 928 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...enabled them to live under severe privations of another kind."t Mr. Griffilh.J from his own observation during twenty years, states an example of peat bog... | |
 | Richard Cowling Taylor - Coal - 1848 - 950 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...enabled them to live under severe privations of another kind."t Mr. Griffith,}; from his own observation during twenty years, states an example of peat bog... | |
 | Richard Cowling Taylor - Coal - 1855 - 658 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others ; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...to live under severe privations of another kind."§ Mr. Griffith, || from his own observation during twenty years, states an example of peat bog having... | |
 | R. C. TAYLOR - 1855 - 642 pages
...occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others ; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute...to live under severe privations of another kind."§ Mr. Griffith, || from his own observation during twenty years, states an example of peat bog having... | |
 | Peat - 1865 - 130 pages
...of their food, render a fire more essential to their welfare than to most others; and, in fact, it is frequently the substitute for clothing, bedding,...to live under severe privations of another kind." We have seen an estimate somewhat as follows, intended to show how important to Ireland are her peat-bogs... | |
 | Thomas Hooker Leavitt - Peat - 1866 - 200 pages
...of their food, render a fire more essential to their welfare than to most others ; and, in fact, it is frequently the substitute for clothing, bedding,...to live under severe privations of another kind." We have seen an estimate somewhat as follows, intended to show how important to Ireland are her peat-bogs... | |
 | Thomas Hooker Leavitt - Peat - 1867 - 332 pages
...most others; and, in fact, it is frequently the substitute for clothing, bedding, and, in part for shelter. Had it not been for the bog, the measures...to live under severe privations of another kind." We have seen an estimate somewhat as follows, intended to show how important to Ireland are her peatbogs... | |
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the rainy climate of Ireland, and the wet occupations of the people, with the nature of their food, make a fire more important to them than to most others ; and, in fact, is frequently the substitute for clothing, bedding, and, in part, shelter. Had... 