 | 1886 - 772 pages
...refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent,and leave it even more seared than it was for want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." Thus we have the evidence of accurate observers as to the beauty and productiveness of this part of... | |
 | Finance - 1874 - 416 pages
...of water suddenly shoot from the mountainheights into the shattered gulfs; waste without irrigating, deluge -without refreshing the soil they overflow...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from the want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and 1 have, the present season (1843),... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1886 - 696 pages
...water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigation, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in...descent, and leave it even more seared than it was for Avant of moisture. Man at last retires from the tearful desert, and I have the present season,... | |
 | Charles Bancroft Cushman - Business & Economics - 2006 - 296 pages
...and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. . . . Man at least retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago. 23 The examples extended to both the southern and northern flanks of the Alps, as well as the entire... | |
 | Charles Bancroft Cushman - Business & Economics - 2006 - 296 pages
...and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. . . . Man at least retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.23 The examples extended to both the southern and northern flanks of the Alps, as well as the entire... | |
 | Dan Louie Flores - Nature - 2001 - 318 pages
...even the hum of an insect, prevails — Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, in the present season, found not a living soul in districts...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.35 These examples extended to both the southern and northern flanks of the Alps, as well as the... | |
 | Dan Flores - Social Science - 2003 - 312 pages
...by even the hum of an insect, prevails Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, in the present season, found not a living soul in districts...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.35 These examples extended to both the southern and northern flanks of the Alps, as well as the... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1890 - 632 pages
...water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in...swift descent, and leave it even more seared than before. Man retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not a living soul... | |
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... summer here and there a withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into... 
