| Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1835 - 250 pages
...these ' rolling prairies,' occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....The depth and richness of the soil on these lands is almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the... | |
| Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1835 - 362 pages
...these ' rolling prairies ' occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....The depth and richness of the soil on these lands is almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the... | |
| Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1836 - 382 pages
...these ' rolling prairies ' occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....The depth and richness of the soil on these lands is almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the... | |
| Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1836 - 356 pages
...these ' rolling prairies ' occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....The depth and richness of the soil on these lands is almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the... | |
| 1837 - 490 pages
...these "rolling prairies," occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms, being invariably over steep and stony declivities....lands are almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the emigrant' settler and backwoodsman. The game... | |
| 1837 - 488 pages
...these "rolling prairies," occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms, being invariably over steep and stony declivities....lands are almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the emigrant settler and backwoodsman. i The... | |
| Joseph Hutchins Colton - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 154 pages
...filled with purple thistles, and ponds filled with aquatic plants. In Missouri they occupy the higher 2* portions of the country; the descent to the wooded...trees ; as, whenever a few years elapse without the flre touching a district, the thick-sown seeds of the slumbering forest, with which the rich vegetable... | |
| Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...these "rolling prairies," occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forested bottoms, being invariably over steep and stony declivities....lands are almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favourite haunt of the emigrant settler and backwoodsman. The game... | |
| John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River - 1858 - 678 pages
...that these " rolling prairies" occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forest bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....lands are almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favorite haunt of the emigrant settler and backwoodsman. The game... | |
| John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1866 - 698 pages
...that these " rolling prairies" occupied the higher portions of the country, the descent to the forest bottoms being invariably over steep and stony declivities....lands are almost incredible, and the edges of the bands of forest are consequently a favorite haunt of the emigrant settler and backwoodsman. The game... | |
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