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... woods has been attended with momentous conse- quences to the drainage of the soil , to the external configura- tion of its surface , and probably , also , to local climate ; and the importance of human life as a transforming power is ...
... woods has been attended with momentous conse- quences to the drainage of the soil , to the external configura- tion of its surface , and probably , also , to local climate ; and the importance of human life as a transforming power is ...
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George Perkins Marsh. CHAPTER III . THE WOODS . The Habitable Earth originally Wooded -- The Forest does not furnish Food for Man- First Removal of the Woods - Effects of Fire on Forest Soil - Effects of the De- struction of the Forest ...
George Perkins Marsh. CHAPTER III . THE WOODS . The Habitable Earth originally Wooded -- The Forest does not furnish Food for Man- First Removal of the Woods - Effects of Fire on Forest Soil - Effects of the De- struction of the Forest ...
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... woods he had burned over , they speedily returned , by a succession of herbaceous , arborescent , and arbo- real ... wood , except the slow , spontaneous succession of crops . This succession involved no interruption of growth , and but ...
... woods he had burned over , they speedily returned , by a succession of herbaceous , arborescent , and arbo- real ... wood , except the slow , spontaneous succession of crops . This succession involved no interruption of growth , and but ...
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... wood only , not in its deeper recesses , and hence the mis- chief they do is not extensive . The insects which damage primitive forests by feeding upon products of trees essential to their growth , are not numerous , nor is their ...
... wood only , not in its deeper recesses , and hence the mis- chief they do is not extensive . The insects which damage primitive forests by feeding upon products of trees essential to their growth , are not numerous , nor is their ...
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... woods of Europe , insects are far more numerous and destructive to trees than in the primitive forests of America , and the same remark may be made of the smaller rodents , such as moles , mice , and squirrels . In the dense native wood ...
... woods of Europe , insects are far more numerous and destructive to trees than in the primitive forests of America , and the same remark may be made of the smaller rodents , such as moles , mice , and squirrels . In the dense native wood ...
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Page 333 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Page 235 - It is desirable that some large and easily accessible region of American soil should remain, as far as possible, in its primitive condition, at once a museum for the instruction of the student, a garden for the recreation of the lover of nature, and an asylum where indigenous tree, and humble plant that loves the shade, and fish and fowl and four-footed beast, may dwell and perpetuate their kind, in the enjoyment of such imperfect protection as the laws of a people jealous of restraint can afford...
Page 309 - Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse...
Page 72 - The design and construction of the outlet arrangements is one of the most important and at the same time most difficult features of the work.
Page 44 - The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces...
Page 44 - There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time which we call
Page 244 - Digne, which for months is without a cloud, produces droughts interrupted only by diluvial rains like those of the tropics. The abuse of the right of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence of porphyry. When moistened by the rain, as it has neither support nor cohesion, it rolls down to the valleys, sometimes in floods resembling black, yellow, or reddish lava, sometimes in streams of pebbles,...
Page iii - Language," &c. 8vo. cloth, 14s. " Mr. Marsh, well known as the author of two of the most scholarly works yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the extent of the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit.
Page 246 - ... the hum. of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from the want of moisture.
Page 207 - ... the stream itself has been entirely dry. Within the last ten years a new growth of wood has sprung up on most of the land formerly occupied by the old forest ; and now the water runs through the year, notwithstanding the great droughts of the last few years, going back from 1856.