... remains in obscurity that we gladly welcome any addition to our knowledge. Travellers' stories have indeed been plentiful as blackberries, but so many of these have been proved false, so many are semifabulous, that reliable information, however limited its ...

... were about two hundred more in the neighbourhood where they were taken. Specimens of Taiping blasphemy are plentiful as blackberries, and it is passing strange how, in the face of them, any Englishman can imagine that the Rebels are under the influence ...

... accounts relative to Saigon, namely, that constant reference is made to Singapore trade, in which errors are as plentiful as blackberries. The inference drawn from these statements is that no jealousy will be created in the minds of these Chinese colonists ...

... SAMUEL MossmAx. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.—Books on China and the Chinese are now plentiful as blackberries. There are historical works, ponderous and diffuse ; theoretical works, speculative and bewildering; argumentative works ...

... which were declared to be the screw palm. Further on, the holly was met with, which is sometimes used fortes, also the blackberry, golden rod, our own blue bell, &c.; and what with sparrows, magpies, and butterflies careering around, the travellers were ...

... efficient control and limitation, of the of paper money, which, as is well known to your readers, is as plentiful in Germany as blackberries. And on this subject it is no easy work to reconcile all the conflicting interests, and perhaps vested rights, of the various ...

... in the interest of the Imperial larder. In fact a considerable contingent of the Mongolian forces seem to have gone a-blackberrying on a very extensive scale. But the result, in two senses, has been fruitless, and the Emperor has no jam. The memorialist ...

... indigo, sugar-cane, tea, safflower, arrowroot, in fact all the products of a tropical country. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, besides buttercups, forget-me-note, and roses are found on the higher plateaux. A considerable portion of the country ...

... the interests of the Imperial larder. In fact, a con.- siderable contingent of the Mongolian forces seems to have gone a blackberrying on a very extensive scale. But the result in two senses has been fruitless, and the Emperor has no jam. The memorialist ...

... The fruit blossom appears early in spring, and the fruit ripens during the month of July. It resembles in shape a firm blackberry, an inch long by three-fourths of an inch in diameter. It contains a single seed atone of light weight. There are two varieties ...