 Tong lies in the heart of the stronghold of ague on either side of the Swale. The soil is throughout very rich ; but this is the Kentish region of " wealth without health." The local proverb runs — " He that will not live long, Let him dwell at Murston,...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - עמוד 724מאת John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1808תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 דפים
...condition of people almost peculiar to England ; and which is, in effect, the basis of all the nation. He that will not live long, Let him dwell at Murston, Tenham, or Tong.—AH. 73. Tcnham has a sickly situation. Therefore the ensuing lines are probably in banter—... | |
 | 1927 - 254 דפים
...Kentshire hot as fyre, Sowseks ful of dyrte and myre. The vale of Holmsdale, Never wonne, and never shale. He that will not live long. Let him dwell at Murston, Tenham, or Tong. A curious rhyme at Hever : (The river Eden is a tributary of the Medway). Jesus Christ never but once... | |
 | Alan Armstrong - 1995 - 366 דפים
...whole of England'.70 The notoriety of the stagnant Kent marshlands was recalled in the old Kentish proverb: He that will not live long Let him dwell at Murston, Teynham or Tong. We know now that the ague and marsh fever, which caused such 'dreadful havoc on the... | |
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