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Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 47

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gnawed by the scalpri-form incisors of these animals. I have endeavouredto explain, in the note referred to, that all the rodents amuse themselves,or possibly preserve their teeth in a naturallj^ useful state, and them-selves in health, by gnawing any object that comes in their way.This is well… … natural rock, and partly of stones set up edgewise. Thedimensions of this cist were about forty inches by twenty-years ago, seeing a very fine black squirrel in the house ofaworkman in thistown, which had been sent him by his son from Canada. It was foundthat it was impossible to keep this animal…

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