 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges j the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of the alpine...cisterns and reservoirs that supplied the ancient canals arc broken, or the springs that fed them dried up ; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 408 pages
...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...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
...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... | |
 | Joseph Pulliblank - 1876 - 474 pages
...accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves 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, once fertilised by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because the cisterns and reservoirs that supplied... | |
 | Minnesota State Forestry Association, Leonard Bacon Hodges - Forests and forestry - 1880 - 188 pages
...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 mold of the upland fields are washed away; meadows once productive, fertilized by irrigation, are waste... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - Forests and forestry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...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...ancient canals are broken, or the springs that fed them are dried up ; rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to little brooklets ; the willows that... | |
 | Eau Claire Manor - Nursing homes - 1886 - 620 pages
...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 mold of the upland fields, are washed away. Meadows once fertilized by irrigation are waste and unproductive,... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Tree planting - 1888 - 312 pages
...from the mountain spurs and ridges ; the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks ; the soil of the Alpine...skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the uplands are washed away ; the meadows once fertilized by irrigation are waste and unproductive, because... | |
 | Agriculture - 1955 - 792 pages
...reproductiveness and population . . . Vast forests have disappeared . . . the soils of the Alpine pastures . . . are washed away; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive." Recognition of the consequences of destructive land use, one of which may have been the decline of... | |
 | Donald J. Pisani - Business & Economics - 1996 - 296 pages
...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...and the mould of the upland fields, are washed away; . . . the entrances of navigable streams are obstructed by sandbars, and harbors, once marts of an... | |
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... productiveness and population. 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... 