 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - Ohio - 1839 - 356 pages
...legitimacy i The long undisputed masters , of the forest may be thinned by the lightning, the tempest, fc or by diseases peculiar to themselves; and whenever...more liberal support than any scion from the former occupant. It will easily be conceived what a length of time it will require for a denuded tract of... | |
 | Ohio - 1839 - 358 pages
...legitimacy. The long undisputed masters of the forest may be thinned by the lightning, the tempest, or by diseases peculiar to themselves; and whenever...more liberal support than any scion from the former occupant. It will easily be conceived what a length of time it will require for a denuded tract of... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage to the skies, through the decayed and withered limbs of its blasted and dying adversary, — the...more liberal support than any scion from the former occupant. It will easily be conceived what a length of time it will require for a denuded tract of*... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage to the skies, through the decayed and withered limbs of its blasted and dying adversary, — the...yielding it a more liberal support than any scion from its former occupant. It will easily be conceived what a length of time it will require for a denuded... | |
 | Charles Stewart Todd, Benjamin Drake - 1847 - 232 pages
...foliage to the skies, through the decayed and withering limbs of its blasted and dying adversary—the soil itself, yielding it a more liberal support than any scion from the former occupant. It will easily be conceived what a length of time it will require for a denuded tract of... | |
 | Arts - 1850 - 270 pages
...the soil for its first growth ceases with its maturity: it admits of no succession on the principle of legitimacy: the long undisputed masters of the...foliage which is the characteristic of the forests of these regions. Of what immense age, then, must be those works, so often recurred to, covered, as has... | |
 | 1850 - 534 pages
...lightning, the tempests, or by diseases peculiar to themselves ; and whenever this is the case, cue of the oft-rejected of another family will find between...foliage which is the characteristic of the forests of these regions. Of what immense age, then, must be those works, sO often recurred to, covered, as has... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...to the skies through the decayed and withering limbs of its blasted and dying adversary; the ¡oil itself yielding it a more liberal support than any...variety of foliage which is the characteristic of the bre,ts of these regions. Of what immense age, then, must be those works, so often recurred to, covered,... | |
 | Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon - Falkland Islands - 1852 - 352 pages
...to the sky, through the withered limbs of its blasted and dying adversary ; the soil itself yielding a more liberal support than any scion from the former...It will easily be conceived what a length of time will be required for a denuded tract of land, by a process so slow, again to clothe itself with the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...undisputed masters of the forest may be thinned by the lightning, the tempests, or by diseases geculiar to themselves ; and whenever this is the case, one...foliage which is the characteristic of the forests of these regions. Of what immense age, then, must be those works, so often recurred to, covered, as has... | |
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... or by diseases peculiar to themselves; and whenever this is the case, one of the oft-rejected of another family will find between its decaying roots shelter and appropriate food, and springing into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage... 