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There are six : Foulness which covers about 7,000 acres of land with some 31,000 acres of sands and mud - flats ; Wallasea Island of about 2,200 acres ; Potton Island , just over 1,000 acres ; lonely little Rushley , its farm cottage ...
There are six : Foulness which covers about 7,000 acres of land with some 31,000 acres of sands and mud - flats ; Wallasea Island of about 2,200 acres ; Potton Island , just over 1,000 acres ; lonely little Rushley , its farm cottage ...
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Sheep are omnivorous feeders and ten years ago he had switched to cattle , which are more selective and therefore kinder to the land . In a country where stations still run to a million acres ( the Duracks once leased an area of over ...
Sheep are omnivorous feeders and ten years ago he had switched to cattle , which are more selective and therefore kinder to the land . In a country where stations still run to a million acres ( the Duracks once leased an area of over ...
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He craned his neck to look , as the bus took off smoothly round the ample curve , his eyes lingering over the rise of land , a brilliant , cultivated contrast to the sinister clusterings of jungle foliage on surrounding mountains .
He craned his neck to look , as the bus took off smoothly round the ample curve , his eyes lingering over the rise of land , a brilliant , cultivated contrast to the sinister clusterings of jungle foliage on surrounding mountains .
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A DAY ON THE LOCH BY A J MCGEOCH | 134 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE MURDER OF PORTEOUS BY | 212 |
SOME LESSER CAPTAINS | 237 |
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