 There are mountains in Attica which can now keep nothing but bees, but which were clothed, not so very long ago, with fine trees producing timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings ; the roofs hewn from this timber are still in existence.  Yearbook of Agriculture - Page 1931955Full view - About this book
 | Charles Pereira - Technology & Engineering - 1973 - 264 pages
...Plato (Criteas, about 400 BC). 'There are mountains in Attica which can now keep nothing more than bees, but which were clothed not so very long ago...timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings; the roofs hewn from this timber are still in existence. There were also many lofty cultivated trees,... | |
 | Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) - Environmental health - 1979 - 864 pages
...ENVIRONMENT There are mountains in Attica which can keep nothing but bees, but which were clothed not so long ago with fine trees, producing timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings. The roofs hewn from this timber are still in existence. There were also many lofty cultivated trees,... | |
 | Bryn Green - Ecosystem management - 1996 - 382 pages
...Chapter VI. Kirby (1992) suggests this may be a reason for the decline of limes in Britain. Wetlands 13 There are mountains in Attica which can now keep nothing but bees, but which were clothed not very long ago, with fine trees producing timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings; and roofs... | |
 | Eva Crane - History - 1999 - 714 pages
...by excessive clearance (Critias lllb-d); he referred to 'mountains in Attica which can now support nothing but bees, but which were clothed, not so very long ago, with fine trees . . . The country [then] produced boundless pasturage for cattle.' 23.12 Aristotelian writings about... | |
 | Chandreyee Niyogi - Social Science - 2006 - 310 pages
...fact of which there are still visible traces. These mountains, which can now support nothing but bees, were clothed not so very long ago with fine trees producing timber for roofing the largest buildings, the roofs hewn from the timber are still in existence. There are... | |
 | 1950 - 396 pages
...soil; and her mountains were heavily afforested — a fact of which there are still visible traces. There are mountains in Attica which can now keep nothing...timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings; the roofs hewn from this timber are still in existence. There were also many lofty cultivated trees,... | |
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