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Marsh, Herbert
(1757-1839) Theologian and controversialist, s. of a clergyman, ed. at Canterbury, Cambridge, and L...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 163:
«Perhaps my use of the common colonial term `marsh' may bemisunderstood at home, as I remember that I myself associatedit at first with the idea of a swamp; but a `marsh' here iswhat would in England be called a meadow, with this difference,that in our marshes, until partially drained, a growth oftea-trees ( Leptospermum) and rushes in some measureencumbers them; but, after a short time, these die off, and aretrampled down, and a thick sward of verdant grass covers thewhole extent: such is our `marsh.'»
(1757-1839) Theologian and controversialist, s. of a clergyman, ed. at Canterbury, Cambridge, and L...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin