 | 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 442 pages
...up the Roman Empire, — a region which shows the most melancholy proofs of havoc and waste. " Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...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 of the alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1865 - 581 pages
...surrendered to hopele'ss desolation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1869 - 480 pages
...surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1864 - 408 pages
...up the Roman Empire, — a region wliich shows the most melancholy proofs of havoc and waste. " Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | 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 - Forests and forestry - 1871 - 284 pages
...to hopeless desolation, or, at least, greatly reduced, both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - 1871 - 280 pages
...to hopeless desolation, or, at least, greatly reduced, both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...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... | |
 | Arthur Bryant - Forests and forestry - 1871 - 282 pages
...to hopeless desolation, or, at least, greatly reduced, both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges...vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decsiy of leaves and fallen trunks; the soil of the alpine pastures, which skirted and indented the... | |
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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... 
