 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1879 - 378 pages
...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,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 442 pages
...melancholy proofs of havoc and waste. " Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth, accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up ; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 408 pages
...melancholy proofs of havoc and waste. " Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth, accumulated beneath the trees...indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are-washed away ; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because the cisterns... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth, accumulated beneath the trees...the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of Alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are washed... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...vegetable earth, accumulated beneath the trees by 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 away ; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - 1871 - 280 pages
...both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up; rivers, famous in history and song,/ have shrunk... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - Forests and forestry - 1871 - 284 pages
...both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up ; rivers, famous in history and song, have shrunk... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - Forests and forestry - 1871 - 282 pages
...disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decsiy of leaves and fallen trunks; the soil of the alpine...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up; rivers, famous in history and song, i have shrunk... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them dried up ; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to... | |
 | Joseph Pulliblank - 1876 - 474 pages
...both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees...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,... | |
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Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks; the soil of the alpine pastures, which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland... 
