A general history of Ireland in its antient and modern state: on a new and consice plan ... the state of its importations, exportations, and agriculture, with observations on its trade and manufactures, and the means to extend and improve them, in consequence of the late grant of a free-trade : the whole containing such a comprehensive description of all the provinces, Counties, &c., as may be necessary to elucidate and render this work the compleatest history of the present state of Ireland yet extant : iIlustrated with a considerable number of such necessary and interesting particulars as render it really useful to the foreigner, the gentleman, and the traveller collected by a gentleman during his travels through the principal parts of this kingdomeditor, John Angel, 1781 - Ireland |
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... feet , where join- ing with other buildings parallel with the front , they form a fquare of 200 feet by 140. Eaft of this fquare is the old hall and chapel , which running eastward 220 feet , form with other ranges of buildings a qua ...
... feet , where join- ing with other buildings parallel with the front , they form a fquare of 200 feet by 140. Eaft of this fquare is the old hall and chapel , which running eastward 220 feet , form with other ranges of buildings a qua ...
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... feet one way and 4 the other . Rowland in his Mona Antiqua de- rives the name Cromlech , from the Hebrew , Cæræm - lech or Cærem - luach , a devoted ftone . See Joshua , ch . viii . ver . 31 . Duet . xvii . 7. and Hofea xii . 2 . About ...
... feet one way and 4 the other . Rowland in his Mona Antiqua de- rives the name Cromlech , from the Hebrew , Cæræm - lech or Cærem - luach , a devoted ftone . See Joshua , ch . viii . ver . 31 . Duet . xvii . 7. and Hofea xii . 2 . About ...
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... feet high , with exceeding fair horns , and broad palms , generally from 8 to 12 feet from the tip of one horn to the other . Jocelyn in his defcription of New England rarities , fays this animal is known in the Weft - Indies by the ...
... feet high , with exceeding fair horns , and broad palms , generally from 8 to 12 feet from the tip of one horn to the other . Jocelyn in his defcription of New England rarities , fays this animal is known in the Weft - Indies by the ...
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... feet deep in turf . There is a large pair of them at Sir John Bellew's at Barmeath near Dunleer . Three of them it were found at Dardiftown in the county of Meath ; one was found in the county of Clare , and prefented by the late duke ...
... feet deep in turf . There is a large pair of them at Sir John Bellew's at Barmeath near Dunleer . Three of them it were found at Dardiftown in the county of Meath ; one was found in the county of Clare , and prefented by the late duke ...
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... feet deep at low water , and fmaller veffels can go confiderably farther : At Cappoquin it again takes a foutherly courfe and falls into the fea at Youghall . And And there are feveral other rivers , ift . one 124 RIVER S IN.
... feet deep at low water , and fmaller veffels can go confiderably farther : At Cappoquin it again takes a foutherly courfe and falls into the fea at Youghall . And And there are feveral other rivers , ift . one 124 RIVER S IN.
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