| Marie Adelaide Brown Shipley - America - 1887 - 246 pages
...earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though. within that brief space of time which we call 'the historical period,' they...reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted for his use except through great geological changes, or other agencies, over which we have no control.... | |
| Michigan State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1887 - 616 pages
...earth to a desolation almost as complete us that •of the moon; and though within that brief space of time which we call the historical period, they...fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated tobe reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fit for human use." And that best of all American... | |
| Marie Adelaide Shipley - America - 1887 - 254 pages
...earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though- within that brief space of time which we call 'the historical period,' they...are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, vtsrdant pastures and fertile meadows, they are now- too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man,... | |
| American Association of School Administrators - Education - 1887 - 326 pages
...complete as that of the moon; and though, within that brief space of time which we call "the historic period," they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant pastпгев, and fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by 6742— No,... | |
| Felix Leopold Oswald - Secularism - 1888 - 254 pages
...to a state of desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though within that brief space of time which we call the historical period, they...reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted for his use except through great geological changes or other agencies, over which we have no control. .... | |
| Marie Adelaide Shipley - America - 1888 - 274 pages
...the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though within that brief space of time which we call 'the historical period,' they...fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimablo by man, nor can they become again fitted for his use except through great geological changes,... | |
| Michigan. Forestry Commission - 1905 - 208 pages
...the moon; and though within that brief space of time, which we call the historical period, they were known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant...deteriorated to be reclaimable by man, nor can they again become fit for human use, except through great geological changes, or other mysterious influences,... | |
| California. Department of Public Instruction - California - 1909 - 106 pages
...earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time which we call "the historical period," they...man, nor can they become again fitted for human use. ' ' "The Alps of Provence present a terrible aspect. In the more equable climate of northern France,... | |
| North Carolina. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1910 - 1224 pages
...the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon; and though within that brief space of time which we call "the historical period" they...fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimed by man, nor can they become again fitted for human use, except through great geological changes... | |
| Ritter Brown - Social problems - 1911 - 328 pages
...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon; and though, within that brief space of time men call the historical period, they are known to have...luxuriant woods, verdant pastures, and fertile meadows. . . . The destructive changes occasioned by the agency of man upon the flanks of the Alps, the Apennines,... | |
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