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1. Upon the sea-coast of a well-improved country, indeed, if coals can conveniently be had for fuel, it may sometimes be cheaper to bring barren timber for building from less cultivated foreign countries than to raise it at home
2. The neighbourhood of the sea-coast, and the banks of all navigable rivers, are advantageous situations for industry, only because they facilitate the exportation and exchange of such surplus produce for something else which is more in demand there
3. But those of a city, situated near either the sea-coast or the banks of a navigable river, are not necessarily confined to derive them from the country in their neighbourhood
4. Such manufactures are generally employed upon the materials which the country produces, and they seem frequently to have been first refined and improved In such inland countries as were not, indeed, at a very great, but at a considerable distance from the sea-coast, and sometimes even from all water carriage
5. England, on account of the natural fertility of the soil, of the great extent of the sea-coast in proportion to that of the whole country, and of the many navigable rivers which run through it, and afford the conveniency of water carriage to some of the most inland parts of it, is perhaps as well fitted by nature as any large country in Europe to be the seat of foreign commerce, of manufactures for distant sale, and of all the improvements which these can occasion
6. The black spoke in a sea-coast dialect, and Conan replied; he had learned the jargon while a corsair on the coasts of Kush
7. Many of their craft plied up and down the great river, rather than along the sea-coasts
8. The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main,
9. a few miles from London, and not on the sea-coast, as Darnford had supposed,
10. The Last was decided upon because of the Loneliness of the Sea-Coast, and ’twas further agreed that we should split our Party—Lancelot, Littlehat, Belinda, and I journeying to Lymeworth alone—and the Rest of the Merry Men taking their various appointed Disguises and hiding out with old Compatriots till we should send for ’em
11. Ramsay and Whitaker have shown, and the observation is a most striking one, that the great lines of escarpment in the Wealden district and those ranging across England, which formerly were looked at as ancient sea-coasts, cannot have been thus formed, for each line is composed of one and the same formation, while our sea-cliffs are everywhere formed by the intersection of various formations
12. —The genus including the common Acorn-shells which live in abundance on the rocks of the sea-coast
13. Every harbor on the sea-coast, also, has its bar at its entrance
14. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets
15. The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house
16. I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast, which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact with vast floating icebergs—I should say, that those rocks must not a little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular
17. Every one knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely Andromeda, the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast, and as Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and delivered and married the maid
18. For amber, though at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far inland soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea
19. An Account of two North American Species of Rottböllia, discovered on the Sea-coast in the State of Georgia, by Dr
20. I have not seen it "on the sea-coast of Florida
21. In Syria it is also common, although less so than in Egypt, but it is only met with on the sea-coast
22. Pulmonary consumption certainly prevails more on the sea-coast, than in the interior