An account of Askern and its mineral springs; together with a sketch of the natural history, and a brief topography, of the immediate neibourhoodJohn Churchill, 1842 - 151 pagina's |
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... existence . Even the origin of its name is lost in obscurity , and only a guess can now be made at its etymology . Hunter , in his learned work on the Deanery of Doncaster , observes , " The name admits of analysis into the ern , or ...
... existence . Even the origin of its name is lost in obscurity , and only a guess can now be made at its etymology . Hunter , in his learned work on the Deanery of Doncaster , observes , " The name admits of analysis into the ern , or ...
Pagina 17
... The village has for many years been favored by the existence of a Female School , which was founded by the Misses Frank ; these ladies , feeling interested in the welfare of their humbler neighbours , undertook C 3 VICINITY OF ASKERN . 17.
... The village has for many years been favored by the existence of a Female School , which was founded by the Misses Frank ; these ladies , feeling interested in the welfare of their humbler neighbours , undertook C 3 VICINITY OF ASKERN . 17.
Pagina 40
... running over loose sand , or other matter . Another striking feature in the physical cha- racter of the magnesian limestone is , the existence , in some places , of an immense number of cavities 40 NATURAL HISTORY OF.
... running over loose sand , or other matter . Another striking feature in the physical cha- racter of the magnesian limestone is , the existence , in some places , of an immense number of cavities 40 NATURAL HISTORY OF.
Pagina 60
... existence of these animalcules , under the influence of a gas destructive to most other forms of animal life , is a striking instance of the wonderful adaptation of organic life to the varied conditions in which inor- ganic matter is ...
... existence of these animalcules , under the influence of a gas destructive to most other forms of animal life , is a striking instance of the wonderful adaptation of organic life to the varied conditions in which inor- ganic matter is ...
Pagina 71
... existence of such vermin , as the Pole - cat , Weasel , and Stoat : I have seen a specimen of what I believe to be the genuine Wild Cat ; but many are so called , which are nothing more than the Domestic Cat , broken loose from ...
... existence of such vermin , as the Pole - cat , Weasel , and Stoat : I have seen a specimen of what I believe to be the genuine Wild Cat ; but many are so called , which are nothing more than the Domestic Cat , broken loose from ...
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abundant action amongst analysis animalcules animals appears Askern Pool Askern water Brewerton Bromine Burghwallis Camps Mount Campsall Park Campsall Woods carbonate of lime carbonic acid Charity Bath chloride chronic colour constituents contain cure cutaneous disease deposit derangements district ditches Ditto Doncaster effects erected existence formation frequently Gallienus gaseous Gateforth glairine Harrogate ingredients large quantity layers Madder Close magnesian limestone Manor Bath medicine mineral springs mineral waters Miss Brooke mucous membranes nature neighbourhood nitrogen Norton origin Owston Patients persons plants Pontefract portions precipitate present probably produced proportion remedy rheumatism rock Roman salts sandstone Saxon seen side Skelbrook Skellow Smeaton Crags Snail soda South Parade South Parade Bath species specimens strata substance sulphate of lime sulphureous springs sulphureous waters sulphuretted hydrogen sulphuric acid supposed surface Sutton Common temperature Terrace Bath Tetricus tion various vegetable matter village watering places waters of Askern whilst Wine Pint
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Pagina 56 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them.
Pagina 30 - Thirst knows neither mean nor measure, Robin Hood's Well was my treasure ; In a common dish enchained I my furious thirst restrained ; And, because I drank the deeper, I paid two farthings to the keeper.
Pagina 31 - Heu nimium sociis nota, Robine, tuis. Me pudet innocuos latices fudisse scelestis, Jamque viatori pocula tuta fero. En pietatis honos ! Comes hanc mihi Carliolensis JBdem sacravit, qua bibis, hospes, aquas.
Pagina 16 - Gros al to torn ; Remember his wondis that for the did smart; Gotten without syn, and on a virgin born: Al his hed percid with a crown of thorn. Alas ! man, thy hart ought to brest in too. Jiewarof the devyl when he blawis his horn, And pray thy gode aungel convey the.
Pagina 10 - Thorn, that these trees were natives of the place, and cut down by the Romans, because the Britons, when defeated in battle, retired into such morasses and woods, and were secure, continually making sallies out and retreats in again, intercepting their provisions, taking and destroying their carriages, &c.
Pagina 143 - ... that continual desquamation of the cuticle, which is frequently one of the most obstinate symptoms with which the physician has to contend ; but is itself also the sole agent under which all the formidable symptoms successively disappear.
Pagina 11 - Saxon camp, and history relates, that a battle was fought there between Ceadwalla, King of the Britons, and Penda, the Pagan King of Mercia, against Edwin, the first Christian King of Northumberland, in which Edwin, and Offride his eldest son, were slain.
Pagina 23 - Skern, who had heretofore been a benefactor to the same college ; and that natives of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire should have the preference.
Pagina 145 - ... Askern, and > wrote on its waters, informs us that rheumatism has been more benefited than any other malady — the chronic form of course, where there is rigidity of the joints, with swelling. A course of the baths, at a temperature varying from 95 to 105 degrees, will frequently effect a cure.
Pagina 104 - ... the microscope. It will be found to consist of a mass of large cells (Fig.