weir

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This letter contains the first announcement of the scheme of Weir of Hermiston.

Towards the end of October he gave it up for the time being and turned to a more arduous task, the tragic Weir of Hermiston.

Capt. Cinnamond is still in bed with lumbago, whilst Major Weir is staying behind too.

Had the boat been carried over the weir you would have been drowned.

LITTLEBOURNE LOCKF. BAYFORD HARRISON

Near to his cottage on the river-bank was a dam or weir, over which the water trickled here and there a few inches deep.

A mile and a half from Warkworth there is another weir, a great straight wall of cement, with a passage for fish on either side.

A reef in the river has made it possible to dispense with a permanent weir.

The large weir is of great width, and of crescent shape, with a wooded island at its foot.

But this rapturous noise of swift-flowing water sounded but faintly, for a hundred yards below was the weir.

Weir of Hermiston he felt to be his very best—St Ives now and then went gaily.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985