The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828

Mr. Bowles in his _History of Bremhill_, makes a few observations suggested by the account in _Domesday Book_, on the wages, and some of the prices of agricultural produce on th...

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_Pod-netting_.--This derives its name from the habitation of the trouts (the banks of the "becks") which are called "hods" or "holds" and more frequently "pods," and this net th...

For many who from active trades Have plung'd into sequester'd shades, Will dismally assure ye, That it's a harder task to bear Th' ennui produced by country air, And sigh for _U...