Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - 530 páginas |
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... miles an hour . We change carriages as well as horses at every post - house ; they are on four wheels , light and easy , and large enough for three persons . The post - boy sits on a cross bar of wood between the front springs , or ...
... miles an hour . We change carriages as well as horses at every post - house ; they are on four wheels , light and easy , and large enough for three persons . The post - boy sits on a cross bar of wood between the front springs , or ...
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... miles , which took us something less than three hours . There is nothing done at Mount Edgecumbe which a gentleman of moderate fortune could not perform ; and nature herself has been at no great expense of bold rocks or mountains ; it ...
... miles , which took us something less than three hours . There is nothing done at Mount Edgecumbe which a gentleman of moderate fortune could not perform ; and nature herself has been at no great expense of bold rocks or mountains ; it ...
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... miles in length ; some of which we might have seen , but felt no sort of inclination . At last we regained the country ; it is pretty enough ; the same waving surface checquered with enclosures , and dotted with cottages and gentlemen's ...
... miles in length ; some of which we might have seen , but felt no sort of inclination . At last we regained the country ; it is pretty enough ; the same waving surface checquered with enclosures , and dotted with cottages and gentlemen's ...
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... miles in two days . We are in no haste . The approach to Ex- eter is very fine ; you see from a hill the vast ex- tent of country below , with an estuary at a dis tance , and hills in gentle swells lost in the hori- zon ; it gives the ...
... miles in two days . We are in no haste . The approach to Ex- eter is very fine ; you see from a hill the vast ex- tent of country below , with an estuary at a dis tance , and hills in gentle swells lost in the hori- zon ; it gives the ...
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... shaggy legs , and heavy heads . : January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours , stoppages included ; the horses better . On approaching Bristol , you see , from an elevation , a ridge on the left , 16 ...
... shaggy legs , and heavy heads . : January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours , stoppages included ; the horses better . On approaching Bristol , you see , from an elevation , a ridge on the left , 16 ...
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