fenny

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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

He cut canals, with vast labor and expense, through all the low eastern parts of Britain, at the same time draining those fenny countries, and promoting communication and commerce.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Around the city there is an extensive fenny plain, which has been greatly improved and cultivated by the Dutch; but to the east it still remains encumbered by woods and marshes.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

Beside these, there is nothing approximating the natural meadows of New England, the fenny, oozy flats of nearly all inhabited countries.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Finsbury was so called from the fenny district in which it lay.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack