 | William Humphrey Marshall - 1811 - 556 pagina’s
...for in their present state at some seasons, the meres are awful reservoirs of stagnated water, which poisons the circumambient air for many miles round...through the outfall of Lynn; and the navigation of all the numerous places that navigate to and from that ancient port ; because the fresh-water floods, the... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1912 - 530 pagina’s
...to the health of the inhabitants. " They are awful reservoirs of stagnated water, which poisons the air for many miles round about, and sickens and frequently...inhabitants, especially such as are not natives." In Cambridgeshire * (1794) there were " 50,000 acres of improved fen, and 200,000 acres of wastes and... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle - 1917 - 534 pagina’s
...to the health of the inhabitants. " They are awful reservoirs of stagnated water, which poisons the air for many miles round about, and sickens and frequently...inhabitants, especially such as are not natives." In Cambridgeshire4 (1794) there were " 50,000 acres of improved fen, and 200,000 acres of wastes and... | |
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The drainage of the meres would also be of more service to the health of the inhabitants of this rich fertile soil, than any other measure that can possibly be adopted, for in their present state at some seasons, the meres are awful reservoirs of stagnated... 