 | Charles Hamilton Smith, Samuel Kneeland - 1855 - 474 sivua
...surround them. Some of the trees of these forests have a positive antiquity of 6 or 800 years. The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. Without attempting to assign a definite period for such an assimilation, he says, " it must, unquestionably,... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones (Jr.) - 1861 - 138 sivua
...once cleared, is extremely slow. Says a prominent writer: In our rich lands, it is indeed soon covered with timber; but the character of the growth is entirely...and continues so; through many generations of men. The sites of the ancient works on the Ohio, present an appearance precisely similar to that of the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1863 - 470 sivua
...philosophical remarks on this subject, which are quoted by Messrs. Squier and Davis. § "The process," he says, "by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the west are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 sivua
...interesting remarks on this subject, which are quoted by Messrs. Squier and Davis.jr "The process," he says, "by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the west are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 sivua
...being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the west are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely different, and continues so for a long period. In several places upon the Ohio, and upon the farm which I occupy, clearings were... | |
 | 1868 - 760 sivua
...remarks on this subject, which are quoted by Messrs. Squier and Davis.f " The " process," Jhe says, " by which nature restores the forest to its " original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich " hwds of the West are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character " of the growth is entirely... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1875 - 686 sivua
...remarks on this subject, which are quoted by Messrs. Squier and Davis f. " The process," he says, " by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremelv slow. The rich lands of the west are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the... | |
 | Ben Douglass - 1878 - 904 sivua
...Historical Society of Ohio, the late President Harrison said, touching upon this subject: "The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the west are, indeed, soon covered again, but the character of the growth is entirely... | |
 | William Henry Harrison - 1883 - 108 sivua
...date as late as the period of the alleged conquest, is conclusive testimony against it, the process by which nature restores the forest to its original...soon covered again with timber, but the character of growth is entirely different, and continues so, through many generations of men. In several places... | |
 | Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac - 1884 - 586 sivua
...turn succeeded the residence of man. Such changes surely needed a long period of time, " The process by which nature restores the forest to its original...state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow," says General Harrison" in a speech already quoted. " The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered... | |
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The process by which nature restores the forest to its original state, after being once cleared, is extremely slow. The rich lands of the West are, indeed, soon covered again ; but the character of the growth is entirely different, and continues so for... 
