Hilloa, the periagua !” it cried. “ Haul over your headsheet, and jam the tiller down into the lap of that comfortable-looking old gentleman.

Where the slopes are too steep for agricultural management and where coarser-grained wastes are too droughty for pasture legumes to persist, the end point of the reclamation process could be a scrub cover of tree lupins (Lupinus arboreits) and/or gorse (Ulex spp.), the willow (Salix cinera) and eventually oak (Quercus spp.) woodland.

The nomenclator's method is first to look about and see if the place has any natural features to suggest a name—like Rocking Stone Farm or White Birches.

Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.