Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 294W. Blackwood, 1963 |
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... hundred feet from the top of the wall . They decided to retreat rather than risk being brought fatally to a halt by weakness through thirst . However , at one point on the climb they had traversed a smooth wall by means of a ' pendule ...
... hundred feet from the top of the wall . They decided to retreat rather than risk being brought fatally to a halt by weakness through thirst . However , at one point on the climb they had traversed a smooth wall by means of a ' pendule ...
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... hundred and seventy feet above the scree ; I must have been about a hundred and twenty . The same process went on for hundreds of feet , until I managed to persuade him to wait . But by then he had reached the ledge with the trees . " D ...
... hundred and seventy feet above the scree ; I must have been about a hundred and twenty . The same process went on for hundreds of feet , until I managed to persuade him to wait . But by then he had reached the ledge with the trees . " D ...
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... hundred acres of wheat and barley , and double that acreage of grass leys . A milking herd of three hundred cows plus followers , a thousand breeding ewes , a hundred steers fattened annually and , to consume the skim , fifty breeding ...
... hundred acres of wheat and barley , and double that acreage of grass leys . A milking herd of three hundred cows plus followers , a thousand breeding ewes , a hundred steers fattened annually and , to consume the skim , fifty breeding ...
Contents
THE ART OF UNCLE JASON BY G E | 96 |
THE PRIDE OF MR LAIRD BY A M | 192 |
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MAST BY HUGH POPHAM | 202 |
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