 | Henry Woodward - 1866 - 652 Seiten
...mathematical one. connecting, say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of soil up-hill,... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1866 - 654 Seiten
...mathematical one, connecting, say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of soil up-hill,... | |
 | 1867 - 332 Seiten
...mathematical one, connecting say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's, below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of the soil... | |
 | Horace Bolingbroke Woodward - 1876 - 308 Seiten
...many instances due to landslips, and in others are due to an accumulation of rain-wash. Mr. SCROPR has pointed out that such ridges would be rapidly...would pave the way for a bank of earth which in the progress of years increases into a linchet several feet in height. § " Between Yarlington and Godshill... | |
 | Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Edwin Tulley Newton - 1887 - 704 Seiten
...part of the open field, the strips were almost always made to run more or less horizontally along it. Each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...years increases into a linchet several feet in height. In some cases on the steep Chalk downs, terraces for ploughing appear to have been artificially cut.*... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1890 - 350 Seiten
...and yet a bank would soon have been formed along it, for each upper cultivator will naturally take care not to allow the soil of his strip to descend to fertilize that of his neighbour. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1869 - 842 Seiten
...mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it, for each upper cultivator will naturally take care not to allow the soil of his strip to descend to fertilize that of his neighbour below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing... | |
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... in a horizontal or nearly horizontal direction, following the sweep of the hillside whether curved or straight. The boundary line between these several strips may have been originally only a mathematical one, connecting, say, two mere-stones, and... 