 | 1864 - 940 pages
...these fearful Wastes of the Woodman's axe. " I have, the present season," says Blanqui, in 1843, " found not a living soul in districts where I remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." Authorities to the same effect, and terrible statistics, in extended detail, are given in the work... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." In 1853, ten years after the date of "Blanqni's memoir, M. de Bonville, prefect of the Lower Alps,... | |
 | 1864 - 922 pages
...these fearful wastes of the woodman's axe. " I have, the present season," says Blanqui, in 1843, " found not a living soul in districts where I remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." Authorities to the same effect, and terrible statistics, in extended detail, are given in the work... | |
 | 1865 - 652 pages
...descent, and leave it more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." pp. 244 — 246. Again on page 242 : " Between Grenoble [in Isere] and Brian9on [Hautes Alpes] in the... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." In 1853, ten years after the date of Blanqui's memoir, M. de Bonvillc, prefect of the Lower Alps, addressed... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." And in another connection it is said by Mr Marsh,—" It deserves to be specially noticed that the... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." And in another connection it is said by Mr Marsh,—" It deserves to be specially noticed that the... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - 1877 - 542 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.' "In 1853, ten years after the date of Blanqui's memoir, M. de Bonville, prefect of the lower Alps,... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - 1877 - 514 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.' "In 1853, ten years after the date of Blanqui's memoir, M. de Bonville, prefect of the lower Alps,... | |
 | 1880 - 374 pages
...and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." And in another connection it is said by Mr Marsh, — " It deserves to be specially noticed that the... | |
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... forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture.... 
