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Author Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862

Title The history and antiquities of Boston, [electronic resource] and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

Imprint Boston, J. Noble, jun.; [etc., etc.] 1856.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Making of America E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxii, 824 p. front., illus., plates, port., fold. geneal. tab. 32 cm.
Series Making of America.
Note "Large paper.--Folio. (250 copies printed)." This copy not numbered.
An enlargement of the author's "Collections for a topographical ... account of Boston", 1820.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 2000. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of Making of America IV: the American voice, 1850-1877.
Subject English language -- Dialects -- England -- Lincolnshire.
Electronic information resources.
Boston (England).
Skirbeck (England)
Added Author University of Michigan. Library.
In: Making of America. URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

 
    
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