 | American Forestry Congress - 1886 - 120 pages
...leave it even more scarred than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have the present season found not a...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." Such warnings of history are abundant. It is unnecessary to multiply them here. They are familiar to... | |
 | California. State Board of Forestry - 1886 - 788 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 a...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago. . and most celebrated par of France. In the sixteenth century the lestruction of forests was great.... | |
 | American Forestry Association - 1886 - 118 pages
...leave it even more scarred than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have the present season found not a...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." Such warnings of history are abundant. It is unnecessary to multiply them here. They are familiar to... | |
 | Antonin Rousset - 1886 - 128 pages
...want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have the present season [1843] found not a living soul in districts where I remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." — (Marsh, "The Earth as Modified," etc., pp. 252-3-4.) Elsewhere Blanqui says: ' ' The gradual destruction... | |
 | California. Legislature - 1886 - 661 pages
...leave it oven more scarred than it was from lack of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and I have the present season found not a living soul in districts where I remembered to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago. Blauqui's account is one that could be easily... | |
 | New York (State). Forest Commission - 1887 - 182 pages
...more seared than it was from the want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and 1 have, the present season, found not a living soul...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago. * * * The clear, brilliant Alpine sky of Embrun and Gap, of Barcelonette and of Digne, which for months... | |
 | New York (State). Forest Commission - 1887 - 190 pages
...more seared than it was from the want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert, and 1 have, the present season, found not a living soul...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago. * * * The clear, brilliant Alpine sky of Embrun and Gap, of Barcelonette and of Digne, which for months... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1893 - 278 pages
...Action," by George P. Marsh. New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co., No. 654 Broadway, 1874. Pp. 656. desert, and I have, the present season, found not...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago." The influence of a vegetable covering on the drainage of the surface is thus referred to by Elisee... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1900 - 1292 pages
...it more seared than it was for want of moisture. Man at last retires from the fearful desert. and 1 have, the present season, found not a living soul...remember to have enjoyed hospitality thirty years ago.' " Warned by the magnitude and the deplorable consequences of such disasters, the ' French government... | |
 | California. Department of Public Instruction - 1909 - 106 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." "It is certain that the productive mould of the Alps, swept off by the increasing violence of that... | |
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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.... 
