Pine Plantations on the Sand-wastes of FranceOliver & Boyd, 1878 - 172 Seiten |
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... raised huge sand waves , which overwhelmed vegetation , and , rolling inland , frequently carried desolation and destruction among far distant villages and fields . Such was the state of this part of the country when M. Bremontier , an ...
... raised huge sand waves , which overwhelmed vegetation , and , rolling inland , frequently carried desolation and destruction among far distant villages and fields . Such was the state of this part of the country when M. Bremontier , an ...
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... raised aloft in irregular or precipitous cliffs , it would surely attract as great a throng of tourists as the mountain - tarns and lochs of Scotland or Cumberland , or the Arcadian waters of Northern Italy . The lake of Biscarosse , in ...
... raised aloft in irregular or precipitous cliffs , it would surely attract as great a throng of tourists as the mountain - tarns and lochs of Scotland or Cumberland , or the Arcadian waters of Northern Italy . The lake of Biscarosse , in ...
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... raised themselves several yards above the crest of the oldest trees , planted on the summit of the highest hills . " The name Dunes is traced etymologically to Dun , a hill , and in the designation we may trace the origin of the ...
... raised themselves several yards above the crest of the oldest trees , planted on the summit of the highest hills . " The name Dunes is traced etymologically to Dun , a hill , and in the designation we may trace the origin of the ...
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... raised in their present places by the hand of man some twenty centuries agone . 6 " On these very dolmens , where the priests of the Tentates were wont to immolate their human victims to their unknown god , the mediæval sorcerers and ...
... raised in their present places by the hand of man some twenty centuries agone . 6 " On these very dolmens , where the priests of the Tentates were wont to immolate their human victims to their unknown god , the mediæval sorcerers and ...
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... raised by ignorance and superstition . It will shed its light upon the wilds and wastes of Brittany , and compel their inhabitants in the course of years to acknowledge its value and accept its benefits . " There is not a little in the ...
... raised by ignorance and superstition . It will shed its light upon the wilds and wastes of Brittany , and compel their inhabitants in the course of years to acknowledge its value and accept its benefits . " There is not a little in the ...
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Pine Plantations on the Sand-Wastes of France (Classic Reprint) John Croumbie Brown Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 22 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery; Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above, the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
Seite 7 - I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds, Is this; an uninhabited seaside, Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon,...
Seite 22 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Seite 17 - ... to be of any remarkable size. Their whole appearance conveys to you the idea of hoary age in the vegetable world of creation; and on visiting Wistman's Wood, it is impossible to do other than think of those " groves in stony places" so often mentioned in Scripture, as being dedicated to Baal and Ashtaroth.
Seite 16 - ... arranged as to resemble the ruins of ancient castles. Innumerable masses of stone, more or less rounded and smoothed, lie scattered over the general surface.
Seite 21 - ... alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around...
Seite 3 - Antwerp, saw, not long since, on the opposite side of the Schelde only a vast desert plain ; now he sees a forest, the limits of which are confounded with the horizon. Let him enter within its shade. The supposed forest is but a system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age.
Seite 21 - ... dark green alders, and pale green reeds, stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedgebird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around : while high overhead hung motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
Seite 17 - The roaring of these torrents after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime to a degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district.
Seite 3 - To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.