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Page 191 - If that man is deserving of the gratitude of his country ' who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before,
Page 625 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 195 - Lombardy particularly, than this, that the selfishness of grantees in perpetuity of water has been one of the most serious obstacles to the development of irrigation. Acting on the principle that they had a right to do what they liked with their own, they were in the habit of suspending arbitrarily the supplies of water disposed of by them to other parties under subordinate grants, of increasing as they thought fit the prices to be paid, and, in a word, of pushing to its utmost limits the right of...
Page 233 - It would seem that there are two classes of non-periodic changesone less frequent and affecting longer periods, and another causing changes above or below the general line of these long periods, and belonging to periods of a year or two. Further than this we find no results worthy of special mention from these long continuous observations over our vast territory, and hence infer that man's agency in influencing either the temperature or aqueous precipitation is, as far as we are able to judge, altogether...
Page 261 - The love of rural life was one of the deepest passions of the Grecian heart, beyond the realm of Arcadia, real or ideal." Through the whole compass of Greek literature the sights and sounds of the country — the murmuring of the bees, the rising sun smiting the earth with his shafts, the rich meadows, the- cattle feeding in the pastures — furnish images on which the city poets delight to dwell, and share with the sea the thoughts that move harmonious numbers. The plains of Attica were covered...
Page 523 - ... month or six weeks, then they are considered fit for sale. A good calf will sell for about fifty shillings, some for more, but many for less. If the calf be a heifer, she is always reared and kept in the island until she is two years old ; when, if not required, she is sold for exportation. Returning to the cow : two weeks or so after calving, if the weather be very fine, she is turned out to grass in the day-time : it is the custom in all the Channel Islands to tether cattle ; the tethers are...
Page 199 - COO years carried a volume of water equal to 1,800 cubic feet per second. This great mass of water has been spread over the surface of the country through a thousand channels, stimulating the productiveness of the soil to such an extent as to make the country through which it passes one of the richest and most densely populated which the world has ever seen. In Piedmont the irrigated region covers 1,500,000 acres, with a network of 1,200 miles of canal.
Page 523 - Back, straight, from the withers to the top of the hip, 1 17. Back, straight," from the top of the hips to the setting on of the tail ; and the tail at right angles with the back, 1 18. Tail, fine 1 19. Tail, hanging down to the hocks, 1 20. Hide, thin and moreable, but not too loose, 1 21.
Page 233 - The natural consequence of all this is an increased dryness of the atmosphere. This conclusion, which is arrived at from general observation and practical knowledge, needs not the proofs that physical science affords by means of the wet and dry bulb thermometers. The facts are patent and intelligible to all, and can be measured in an uncovered district by the sensible diminution of a mountain stream after a day of intense sunshine. In California, on the eastern side of our great valley, in places...
Page 313 - That the experience of other countries appears to prove that no extensive system of irrigation can ever be devised or executed by the farmers themselves, in consequence of the impossibility of forming proper combinations or associations for that purpose. That, while small enterprises may be undertaken by the farmers in particular cases, it would not be in accordance with the experience of the world to expect of them the means or inclination to that co-operation which would be necessary to construct...