 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...violence of that curse of the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...surface the grass they require for their sustenance, scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger, is periodically washed and carried off... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1865 - 581 pages
...violence of that curse of the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...Provence, cut up by the hoofs of the sheep, which, nqt finding on the surface the grass they require for their sustenance, scratch the ground in search... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared of wood. Thcir soil, scorched by the sun of Provence, cut up by the hoofs of the sheep, which, not finding osl the surface the grass they require for their sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...violence of that curse in the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger, is periodically washed and carried off by melting snows and summer storms.... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...violence of that curse in the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger, is periodically washed and carried off by melting snows and summer storms.... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - Geology - 1877 - 514 pages
...violence of that curse of the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger, is periodically washed and carried off by melting snows and summer storms.... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - Geology - 1877 - 542 pages
...violence of that curse of the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger, is periodically washed and carried off by melting snows and summer storms.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 388 pages
...are deserted that were before well-peopled. Referring to one of these districts, Young, writing in 1789, says: — "About Barcelonette, and in the highest...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to ^satisfy their hunger — is periodically washed away and carried off by melting snows and summer... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 376 pages
...revelled in her favours, and fallen asleep in the midst of her profusion." A little later, in 1848, Blanqui, the eminent political economist, in a paper...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to satisfy their hunger — is periodically washed away and carried off by melting snows and summer... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 376 pages
...passages occur:—" Our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared of wood. Their soil—scorched by the sun of Provence, cut up by the hoofs of the...sustenance, gnaw and scratch the ground in search of roots to" satisfy their hunger—is periodically washed away and carried off by melting snows and summer... | |
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It is certain that the productive mould of the Alps, swept off by the increasing violence of that curse of the mountains, the torrents, is daily diminishing with fearful rapidity. All our Alps are wholly, or in large proportion, bared of wood. Their soil,... 
