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This plant requires a light foil, well tilled, and never de - luged with water; for this reafon fpots are preferred which arc Hoping, beeaufe this pofition preierves the indigo plant from the ftagnation of the rain, which might deftroy it, and from inundations, that might cover it with a prejudicial flime.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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A fpirit of plunder brought our ancedors from the forefrs of Germany into the fertile provin - ces of Italy; and the flime fpirit, more perhaps, than their refpccl for the crofs, led them m Alia to fliare in the fpoils of the eaflern and Saracen empires.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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There is a layer of fand and flime under as well as over
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Obje£lions againft the ftatutes, and anfwers to the flime.
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'ith a tridentfmote, and fix'd as firm 295 clos floating once; the reft his look id with Gorgonian rigour not to move; with Afphaltic flime, broad as the gate»
Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E. Fenton]. 1789
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"And roll, with vileft brutes, thro 'mud and flime?
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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