Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Volume 5Workers of Cornwall Limited, 1875 Includes the Reports of the Institution, which, prior to the establishment of the Journal, were issued separately. |
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Page 224 - On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 224 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay...
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Page 65 - Chronological and Descriptive Index of Patents applied for and Patents granted, containing the abridgments of provisional and complete specifications, for the quarters ending March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, 1869.
Page 473 - Lobsters with their young ones around them ; some of the young have been noticed as six inches long. One man noticed the old Lobster with her head .peeping from under a rock, the young ones playing around her: she appeared to rattle her claws on the approach of the fisherman, and herself and young took shelter under the rock; this rattling, no doubt, was to give the alarm.
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