Weald

Andredsweald, now commonly called the Weald, was formerly full of strong holds and fastnesses, and was consequently well calculated for the retreat of the ancient Britons from before the regular armies of the

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

They were in the midst of that rich and beautiful tract of country known as the Weald of Kent, once the eastern part of the great Andredes Weald,

All's Well Alice's Victory Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our Palaeozoic strata, in Parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Prof. Ramsay's masterly memoir on this subject.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Professor Ramsay's masterly memoir on this subject.

On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 09 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Professor Ramsay's masterly memoir on this subject.

On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palæozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845

This restoration appears to me to rest on insufficient data, being constructed to suit the supposed area over which the gigantic Irish deer, or Megaceros, migrated from east to west, also to explain an assumed submergence of the district called the Weald, in the south-east of England, which had remained land during the grand glacial submergence.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

The floor of this gouge is the flat fertile lowland called the Weald, with a slight sandstone ridge in the centre, called the High Weald.

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The air of this coimty is various: along the fea - iliore it is thought aguiib; but has a much greater efteft on ftrnngers than on the natives, who are generally healthful: in the Weald, which is a rich deep foil, it is apt to be foggy, yet not unwhole - fome; but upon the downs it is extremely fweet and healthy.

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a succession of hills -- that chain of hills which, I believe, is called the Weald, and over which the dim road dipped, and wound, with, on either hand, a rolling country, dark with wood, and coppice -- full of mystery.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915