 | Commerce - 1848 - 696 pages
...The intermediate spaces between the swamps and lakes, which is near one-half of the country, is, with very few exceptions, a poor barren sandy land, on...which may be called dry land is composed of little short sand hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottom of many of which are composed of a marsh... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1848 - 726 pages
...The intermediate spaces between the swamps and lakes, which is near one-half of the country, is, with very few exceptions, a poor barren sandy land, on...except very small scrubby oaks. In many places that parl which may be called dry land is composed of little short sand hills, forming a kind of deep basins,... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 706 pages
...intermediate spaces between the swamps and lakes, which is near one-half of the country, ií, with very few exceptions, a poor barren sandy land, on...vegetation grows, except very small scrubby oaks. In many place.« that part which may be called dry land is composed of little shott sand hills, forming a kind... | |
 | Michigan - 1873 - 756 pages
...across. Many of the lakes have extensive marshes adjoining their margins, sometimes thickly covered with a species of pine called ' tamarack/ and other...which may be called dry land is composed of little, short sand-hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms of many of which are composed of a marsh... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - History - 1873 - 138 pages
...marshes adjoining their margins, sometimes thickly covered with, a species of pine called ' tamarack,1 and other places covered with a coarse, high grass,...scarcely any vegetation grows, except very small, scrubby oaksv In many places, that part which may be called dry land, is composed of little, short sand-hills,... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...across. Many of the lakes have extensive marshes adjoining their margins, sometimes thickly covered with a species of pine called ' tamarack,' and other...which may be called dry land is composed of little, short sand-hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms of many of which are composed of a marsh... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...across. Many of the lakes have extensive marshes adjoining their margins, sometimes thickly covered with a species of pine called ' tamarack,' and other...which may be called dry land is composed of little, short sand-hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms of many of which are composed of a marsh... | |
 | State Pomological Society of Michigan - Fruit-culture - 1875 - 592 pages
...is said, among ether things, that the country was very low and swampy, with intermediate spaces of poor, barren, sandy land, on which scarcely any vegetation grows, except very small scrubby oaks, and that taking the country altogether, so far as explored, and to all appearances, together with information... | |
 | James J. Hogaboam - Bean Creek (Mich. and Ohio) - 1876 - 144 pages
...and varying in extent. The intermediate land between these swamps and lakes, which is probably nearly one-half of the country, is (with a very few exceptions)...land, on which scarcely any vegetation grows, except small, scrubby oaks. In many places that part which may be called dry land is composed of little short... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 654 pages
...varying in extent. The intermediate space between the swamps and lakes, which is probably near one half of the country, is with a very few exceptions a poor,...which may be called dry land, is composed of little short sand hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms of many of which are composed of marsh... | |
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... and other places covered with a coarse, high grass, and uniformly covered from six inches to three feet (and more at times) with water. The margins of these lakes are not the only places where swamps are found, for they are interspersed throughout... 
