 ... silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow...  Proceedings of the American Forestry Association - Page 9by American Forestry Association - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 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 - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires...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,... | |
 | Bible - 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... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1865 - 652 pages
...deluge without even refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires...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 - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires...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
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires...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
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires...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 - Geology - 1877 - 542 pages
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires...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 - Geology - 1877 - 514 pages
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture. Man at last retires...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,... | |
 | Floods - 1880 - 374 pages
...deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture, Man at last retires...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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