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The foil participates in the charafter of the atmofphere; wherever it is not rocky or fandy it is conftantly moift, and the lowefl parts are marfliy.
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Vcgetarion, generally fpeaking, flouriflies lefs on Maria Ifland than on Diemen's Land; its ealiern fide is too fleep and mountaneous, and too much expofed to the wmds to be very fertile, and that on the wefl is dther too fandy or too marfliy to be produ&Ve.
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When getting round the point, and coming before a fandy beach, they found found - ings thiny and forty fathoms, fandy ground, and about one mile from the ihore.
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Beyond this cape the land rifes ftili higher; two groupes of mountains fpring from tlie bofom of the waves, united at their bafe by a low and fandy ilthmus, vifible only when clofe to it, and which makes the two groupes appear like diftind iilands.
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This town flands in a fandy foil; but what the reft of the iiland is I know not, for none of us were afhore but at this place.
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But we paft between them all and the ifland Celebes, and anchored againft a fandy bay in eight fathoms fandy groimd, about half a mile from the main ifland; bemg tnen m latitude one degree nfty minutes fouth.
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It is itfelf nothing but a large granitic plateau, raifed about 100 feet above the level of the fea: the coafl; of the illand is indented by an infinite number of fandy coves, but in front of them, as if to interdid all entrance, lie a groupe of rocks, againft which the fea beats with violence.
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From the Gulph of the Tagus, travelling to the North Eaft we firft meet with large fandy plains, bordered with ... more pages: 54 Clonmel - Page 241He was therefore a fécond lime apprehended, was tried at the affixes of Clonmel, found guilty upon the cleareft evidence, and executed accordingly. ...
The Antijacobin review; and protestant advocate: or, monthly political and literary censor 1798
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That near the iea is generally fandy, and without ftones, for which reafbn the horfes are feldum fhod.
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The foil is generally fandy and barren, infomuch that the caravans crofling it to and from Negroland are often reduced to great extremities.
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