| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1808 - 290 pagina’s
...are always abreast, and guided with a line ; and it is incredible how fast the business proceeds.— A fen ploughman has been known to win a considerable...keeping his mares always in a trot even at the land's ends, those being the two conditions ot the bet. The common rate of ploughing is about two statute... | |
| John Britton - 1808 - 896 pagina’s
...are always abreast, and guided with a line ; and it is incredible how fast the business proceeds. — A fen ploughman has been known to win a considerable...keeping his mares always in a trot even at the land's ends, those being the two conditions of the bet. The common rate of ploughing is about two statute... | |
| John Britton - 1808 - 882 pagina’s
...are always abreast, and guided with a line; and it is incredible how fast the business proceeds. — A fen ploughman has been known to win a considerable...keeping his mares always in a trot even at the land's ends, those being the two conditions nt the bet. The common rate of ploughing is about two statute... | |
| William Humphrey Marshall - 1811 - 556 pagina’s
...used upon the edges of the fens. A fen plowman has been known to win a considerable wager, by plowing an acre of high land, without a single balk, keeping his mares always in a trot, even at the land's ends, those being the two conditions of the bet; a proof, not only of his own expertness, but that... | |
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