 | Charles Stewart Todd, Benjamin Drake - Biography & Autobiography - 1840 - 184 pages
...to prove the great antiquity of the ancient mounds and fortifications of this region. " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...being once cleared, is extremely slow. In our rich lauds, it is, indeed, soon covered again with timber, but the character of the growth is entirely different,... | |
 | Charles Stewart Todd, Benjamin Drake - 1847 - 232 pages
...were thos* when honorable poverty prevailed, and when patriotism was best rewarded." " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. In nur rich lands, it ia, indeed, soon covered again with timber, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 544 pages
...be distinguished from the primitive forests where no clearing has ever been attempted. " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared," says President Harrison, "is extremely slow." It is the work not of a few years, but of centuries.... | |
 | Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...of these works. In an address before the Historical Society of Ohio, he said : — " ' The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremely Blow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - Presidents - 1852 - 560 pages
...illustrate this ; and also afford both pleasure and interest to the enquirer after both : — " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...once cleared, is extremely slow. In our rich lands, indeed, it is soon covered again with timber, but the character of the growth is entirely different,... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...of these works. In an address before the Historical Society of Ohio, he said : — " ' The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremely flow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - 1853 - 484 pages
...this ; and also afford . both pleasure and interest to the enquirer after both : — " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...once cleared, is extremely slow. In our rich lands, indeed, it is soon covered again with timber, but the character of the growth is entirely different,... | |
 | Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Samuel George Morton - African Americans - 1854 - 800 pages
...antiquity of these works. In an address before the Historical Society of Ohio, he laid: — " 'The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the West are indeed soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
 | Biology - 1863 - 656 pages
...being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich " lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character " of the growth is entirely different, and continues so for a long period. " In several places upon the Ohio, and upon the farm which I " occupy, clearings... | |
 | Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon - Anthropology - 1855 - 828 pages
...antiquity of these works. In an address before the Historical Society of Ohio, be eaid : — " 'The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the West are indeed soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
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The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again ; but the character of the growth is entirely different, and continues so for... 
