| Georg Hartwig - Antarctica - 1869 - 500 pages
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation and... | |
| Georg Hartwig - Antarctica - 1869 - 602 pages
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The ' barrens ' of Newfoundland are those districts...berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation and... | |
| Georg Hartwig - Antarctic regions - 1871 - 776 pages
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation and... | |
| Canada - 1875 - 594 pages
...into mountains (the highest not exceeding 1,500 feet) and the latter rarely expanding into plains. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes, of various kinds. Bare patches of gravel and boulders, and crumbliag fragments of rock, are frequently met with... | |
| Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 758 pages
...rising into mountains, the highest not exceeding 1500 feet, and the latter rarely expanding into plains. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various kinds. Bare patches of gravel and boulders, and crumbling fragments of rock, are frequently met with... | |
| Charles Francis King - Arctic regions - 1890 - 346 pages
...high, rocky hills, which gradually slope away in all directions to the sea. expanding into plains. The 'barrens' of Newfoundland are those districts which occupy the summits of the hills and ridges. They are covered with a thin vegetation. Lakes, marshes, and rivers abound everywhere, and the soil... | |
| George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson - Reference - 1990 - 858 pages
...Broadside at Parting": Farewell to each mountain and moor, / Each desolate barren and bog. 1843 JUKES 22 The 'barrens' of Newfoundland are those districts...They are covered with a thin and scrubby vegetation. . .and are somewhat similar in appearance to the moorlands of the north of England, differing only... | |
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