 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - Cartography - 1852 - 476 pages
...disappearance of the forests commenced and originated the mighty change. So also, iu other cases,the cultivation of clover, requiring a moist atmosphere, has passed from Greece to Italy, thence to Germany, and is now flying still further towards the Western Ocean. In Egypt, Pythagoras... | |
 | Matthias Jacob Schleiden - 1853 - 382 pages
...of a country. We can, indeed, now raise one of the finest wines upon the Rhine, where, two thousand years ago, no Cherry ripened, but on the other hand,...Greece to Italy, from thence to southern Germany, arid already is beginning to fly from the continually drier summers there, to be confined to the moister... | |
 | American Forestry Association - Forests and forestry - 1894 - 586 pages
...can be raised one of the finest vines on the Rhine, where two thousand years ago no cherry ripened, on the other hand those lands where the dense population...Greece to Italy, from thence to Southern Germany, and is already beginning to fly from the continually drier summers there, to be confined to the moister... | |
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Rhine where, two thousands years ago, no Cherry ripened, but on the other hand, those lands where the dense population of the Jews was nourished by a fruitful culture, are in the present day half deserts. The cultivation of Clover, requiring a moist atmosphere,... 