...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...deserted by civilized man and surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges j the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil...

...we shall find that more than one-half of their whole extent * * is either deserted by civilized men and surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least...the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of Alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland f1elds, are washed...

...deserted by civilised man and surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared...and fallen trunks, the soil of the Alpine pastures that skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are washed away ; meadows,...

...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...that more than one-half of their whole extent, including the provinces the most celebrated for their profusion and variety of their spontaneous and their...pastures, which skirted and indented the woods, and the mold of the upland fields are washed away; meadows once productive, fertilized by irrigation, are waste...

...surrendered to hopeless desolalation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Yast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges;...accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and of fallen trunks, the soil of the alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould...

...deserted by civilized man and surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared...accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and of fallen trunks, the soil of the alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould...

...either deserted by civilized man, and surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced in productiveness and population. Vast forests have...pastures, which skirted and indented the woods, and the mold of the upland fields, are washed away. Meadows once fertilized by irrigation are waste and unproductive,...