... proportions. The first growth on the same kind of land, once cleared and then abandoned to nature, on the contrary, is nearly homogeneous, often stinted to one or two, at most three kinds of timber. If the ground has been cultivated, the yellow locust... The Natural History Review - Page 241868Full view - About this book
| Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1849 - 324 pages
...ground has been eultivated, the yellow loeust will thiekly spring up; if not eultivated, the blaek and white walnut will be the prevailing growth. *...age, then, must be the works so often referred to, eovered as they are by at least the seeond growth after the primitive forest state was regained ?"... | |
| Antiquities - 1850 - 418 pages
...on the same kind of land, once cleared and then abandoned to nature, on the contrary,' is entirely homogeneous, often stinted to one or two, at most...growth, after the primitive forest state was regained?' It is not undertaken to assign a period for the assimilation here indicated to take place. It must... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...Tf the ground has been cultivated, the yellow locust will thickly spring up ; if not cultivated, tho black and white walnut will be the prevailing growth....growth, after the primitive forest state was regained?' It is not undertaken to assign a period for the assimilation here indicated to take place. It must... | |
| Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Samuel George Morton - African Americans - 1854 - 800 pages
...can be effected. We find, in the ancient works, all that variety of trees which give such unrivalled beauty to our forests, in natural proportions. The...they are, by at least the second growth after the primitive-forest state was regained ? ' " It is not undertaken to assign a period for the assimilation... | |
| Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon - Anthropology - 1855 - 828 pages
...all that variety of trees which give such unrivalled beauty to our forests, in natural proportion?. The first growth, on the same kind of land, once cleared...they are, by at least the second growth after the primitive-forest state was regained ? ' •• It is not undertaken to assign a period for the assimilation... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1863 - 470 pages
...often referred o L. c., p. 168. t L. c., vol.i, p. 359. } Willson, c., vol. i, p. 256. $ L. c., p. 306. to, covered, as they are, by at least the second growth,...regained ?" We get another indication of antiquity in the "garden-beds," which we have already described. This system of cultivation has long been replaced by... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1872 - 702 pages
...two, at most three kinds of timber. If the ground has been cultivated, the yellow locust will quickly spring up ; if not cultivated, the black and white...after the primitive forest state was regained * ? " We obtain another indication of antiquity in the " gardenbeds," which we have already described. This... | |
| Ben Douglass - Wayne County (Ohio) - 1878 - 904 pages
...thickly spring up ; if not cultivated, the black and white walnut will be the prevailing growth. Of what age, then, must be the works so often referred to,...growth, after the primitive forest state was regained ?" But we have still another " sign " of antiquity in the aforementioned garden-beds. This system of... | |
| Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac - America - 1884 - 588 pages
...not cultivated, the black and white walnut will be the prevailing growth. * * * Of what immense ages, then, must be the works so often referred to, covered...growth after the primitive forest state was regained ? " Barrandt ' describes a regular town, a Mound City he calls it, on the Yellowstone River, which... | |
| Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac - Antiquities, Prehistoric - 1885 - 598 pages
...not cultivated, the black and white walnut will be the prevailing growth. * * * Of what immense ages, then, must be the works so often referred to, covered...growth after the primitive forest state was regained ? " Barrandt' describes a regular town, a Mound City he calls it, on the Yellowstone River, which town... | |
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