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The concussion failed to detonate the Fort Fisher magazine, and the ensuing amphibious attack proved to be abortive. The troops who went ashore on Christmas Eve to storm the Southern stronghold reembarked the next day and headed back toward Hampton Roads. Rhind and the band of volunteers returned to Agawam which was still undergoing repairs. The work continued through mid-February, and the gunboat finally put to sea on the 16th.
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The establishment of orchards turned out to be abortive when only one crop of fruit was ever exported, and although there was ample summer irrigation water available, the hard winter frosts destroyed most of the trees.www.centralotago.info accessed July 2010 Once a community with school, post office and Roman-Catholic church,Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1905, p. 709 today the area is a collection of modern farm houses, and the remains of miners' stone cottages; some derelict, others restored. Fine examples of restored houses are John Mitchell's cottage, and the Speargrass Inn, formerly the Speargrass Hotel.
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The youngest member of the class, No. 323 Bluebell is one of the first two engines which worked passenger trains during the first year of the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society. It arrived at the Bluebell in 1960 and remained a stalwart in the Bluebell's locomotive fleet between 1960 and 1998 when it was withdrawn pending overhaul. During this time it also visited the East Somerset Railway for four years between 1980 and 1984. Early attempts to overhaul the engine, which had gained the unofficial name of Bluebell at the railway, in 2005 proved to be abortive and 323, partially dismantled, was moved back to storage at Sheffield Park in a partially dismantled state.
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Attempts at > the production of first crosses are not new, as these have been practised > for many years by experimenters in the same field, who however stopped short > of the point at which the Garton System achieved its greatest results, viz. > by compound or multiple crossing. This further stage of the work of cross > fertilisation leads to a thorough dislocation of the usual course of the law > of inheritance by which "like produces like." In the wilderness of > uncertainty and confusion which follows and in which the great majority of > the progeny are found to be abortive or inferior, a few choice specimens > appear which are grown for a number of years until fixity of type has been > secured.
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