 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 568 pages
...we perceive the appearance of that surface altered by excavations and other irregularities, we may look with a prospect of success for the habitations...the soil thrown up by the moles of a blacker tint.' On such spots our antiquaries fell to work, and never without success. ' Animal bones, (those of quadrupeds,)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 562 pages
...downs, (ie untouched by the plough,) bear a most even and smooth surface, and whenever we perceive the appearance of that surface altered by excavations and other irregularities, we may look with a prospect of success for the habitations of the Britons, and especially if the herbage is... | |
 | 1816 - 654 pages
...by which I mean all land untouched by the plough, bear a most even and smooth surface ; and wherever we find the appearance of that surface altered by...herbage is of a more verdant hue, and the soil thrown up 63' the moles of a blacker tint. There, on turning up the soil, will be found convincing proofs of... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 660 pages
...by which I mean all land untouched by the plough, bear a most even and smooth surface ; and wherever we find the appearance of that surface altered by...and other irregularities, we may there look with a prospecU of success for the habitations of the Britons ; and especially if the herbage is of a more... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...on the slate of ancient British towns. He says, " Whenever we find the surfaces of our chalk hills altered by excavations and other irregularities, we...verdant hue, and the soil thrown up by the moles of a darker tint. The high lands throughou'. England were the first occupied by the earliest inhabitants,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 860 pages
...chalk hills, will observe that all maiden downs, by which I mean all land untouched by the plough, bear a most even and smooth surface ; and whenever we find...Britons and especially if the herbage is of a more erdant hue, and the soil thrown up by the moles of a blacker tint. There, on turning ip the soil, will... | |
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I mean all lands untouched by the plough, bear a most even and smooth surface ; and whenever we find the appearance of that surface altered by excavations and other irregularities, we may there look with a prospect of success for the habitations of the... 