...Harrison9 in a speech already quoted. " 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 were...

...turn succeeded the residence of man. Such changes surely needed a long period of time. " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow," says General Harrison' in a speech already quoted. " The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered...

...notable for firsthand observation of nature and for genuine eloquence. It is a? follows : "The .process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cjeared, is extremely slow. In our rich lands, it is, indeed, soon covered again with timber, but the...

...antiquity 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 slow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely...

...philosophical remarks on this subject, which are quoted by Messrs. Squier and Davis. § "The process," he says, "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...

...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 were...