 May we not recognise in this the hand of bounteous Providence, which has given perhaps the most stony soil in Europe to /the moistest climate in it? If as much rain fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without...  Transactions - Page 223by Royal Irish Academy - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...upon the clays of England, (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone,) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks here, are clothed with verdure. Those of limestone, with only a thin covering of mould,... | |
 | Royal Irish Academy - Ireland - 1837 - 644 pages
...eighteen years at Liverpool, which is not a very great distance from Kendal, was 34 inches Memoirs of the Lit. and Phil. Society of Manchester, Vol....of Camden, were the same in the time of Cambrensis. Camden observes, that Giraldus said, not without reason — nature beheld the realm of zephyr, with... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...in Ireland the moisture of the climate renders it conducive to abundance. " If," says Mr. Young, " as much rain fell upon the clays of England as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, they could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are clothed with verdure ; those of limestone, with... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 782 pages
...but in Ireland the moisture of the climate renders it conducive to abundance. "If," says Mr. Young, " as much rain fell upon the clays of England as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, they could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are clothed with verdure ; those of limestone, with... | |
 | John Nicholas Murphy - Ireland - 1870 - 548 pages
...upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never •without much stone) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are clothed with verdure ; those of limestone, with only a thin covering of mould,... | |
 | Arthur Young - Ireland - 1887 - 212 pages
...fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks are here clothed with verdure; those of limestone, with only a thin covering of mould,... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1892 - 444 pages
...fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are cloathed with verdure ; — those of lime stone, with only a thin covering of... | |
 | Frank Humphreys Storer - Agricultural chemistry - 1897 - 616 pages
...fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone) .as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks in Ireland are clothed with verdure — those of limestone, with only a thin covering... | |
 | Arthur Young - Ireland - 1925 - 286 pages
...fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are clothed with verdure; those of limestone, with only a thin covering of mould,... | |
 | Sean Dunne - Fiction - 1957 - 496 pages
...fell upon the clays of England (a soil very rarely met with in Ireland, and never without much stone) as falls upon the rocks of her sister island, those lands could not be cultivated. But the rocks here are clothed with verdure; those of limestone, with only a thin covering of mould,... | |
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