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A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia - Page 70
by Leitch Ritchie - 1836 - 256 pages
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Russia and the Russians; Or, A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Through ...

Leitch Ritchie - Russia - 1836 - 210 pages
...custom of the peasants to cut down the trees at some distance from the root, and thus a great deal of wood will be turned to a useful purpose which would...the principal streets the outer wall of the ground floor — or rather the sunk floor, as the greater part of it is under-ground — is either granite...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 32

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1840 - 706 pages
...custom of the peasantry to cut down the trees at same distance from the root, and thus a great deal of wood will be turned to a useful purpose, which would...encumber the ground. Every peasant, besides, by means of Ыв uxe alone, is able to construct such a pavement ; und iu Russia, hands are both plenty and cheap....
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 32

Technology - 1840 - 702 pages
...down the trees at some distance from the root, tod thus a great deal of wood mil be turned to a UMful purpose, which would otherwise only encumber the ground. Every peasant, besides, by means of hii axe alone, Is able to construct such в pavement ¡ and in Russia, hands are both plenty and cheap....
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 32

Industrial arts - 1840 - 706 pages
...the trees at some distance from the root, and thus a great deal of wood will be turned to a usd ul purpose, which would otherwise only encumber the ground. Every peasant, besides, by means of his axe atone, is able to construct such a pavement; and in Russia, hands are both plenty and cheap. Sato Sctlnj...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 13

1836 - 808 pages
...custom of the peasantry to cut down the trees at some distance from the root ; and thus a great deal of wood will be turned to a useful purpose, which would...encumber the ground. Every peasant, besides, by means of bis axe alone, is able to construct surh a pavement ; and in Russia hands are both plentv and hind...
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The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 32

1840 - 698 pages
...custom of the peasantry to cut down the trees at some distance from the root, and thus a great deal of wood will be turned to a useful purpose, which would..., and In Russia, hands are both plenty and cheap. LTat (i/ Varnith of Dtstriirt or Starch in the Fine Art* — In the sitting of the Academy of Sciences,...
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