 ... fauna retains but a few dwarfed representatives. Noble rivers flowed through plains and valleys, and sea-like lakes broader and more numerous than those the continent now bears diversified the scenery. Through unnumbered ages the seasons ran their...  The American Naturalist - Page 6521871Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 812 lehte
...scenery. Through unnumbered ages the seasons ran their ceaseless course, the sun rose and set, moous waxed and waned over this fair land, but no human...use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their mamcolored petals on meadow and hill-side, and filled the air with their fragrance, but only for the... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 534 lehte
...Arctic Sea; the Canadian highlands were higher, but the Rocky Mountains lower and less broad. Must of the continent exhibited an undulating surface ....use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many colored petals on meadow and hill-side, and filled the air with their fragrance, but only for... | |
 | 1872 - 520 lehte
...Arctic Sea; the Canadian highlands were higher, but the Rooky Mountains lower and le.^s broad. Jli,st of the continent exhibited an undulating surface ;...use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many colored petals on meadow and hill-side, and filled the air with their fragrance, but only for... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 526 lehte
...savannah, over which roamed countless herds of animals, many of gigantic size, of which our present meager fauna retains but a few dwarfed representatives. Noble...land, but no human eye was there to mark its beauty, nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-colored petals... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 524 lehte
...savannah, over which rotmied countless herds of animals, many of gigantic size, of which our present meager fauna retains but a few dwarfed representatives. Noble...land, but no human eye was there to mark its beauty, nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-colored petals... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 542 lehte
...gigantic size, of which our present meager fanna retains but a few dwarfed representatives. Noble river* flowed through plains and valleys, and sea-like lakes,...fair land, but no human eye was there to mark its beanty, nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-colored... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 524 lehte
...gigantic size, of which our present meager fanna retains but a fevv dwarfed representatives. Noble rivera flowed through plains and valleys, and sea-like lakes,...fair land, but no human eye was there to mark its beanty, nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-colored... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - 1880 - 604 lehte
...diversified the scenery. Through unnumbered ages the seasons ran their ceaseless course, the sun rose ^nd set, moons waxed and waned over this fair land, but no human eye was there to mark its beauty nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-colored petals... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - 1883 - 710 lehte
...the Tertiary age is drawn by Pro a B J -J fessor Xewberry in Hayden's Annual Beport for 1870 : — " Then a warm and genial climate prevailed from the...land ; but no human eye was there to mark its beauty, nor human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many-coloured... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 518 lehte
...highlands irerc higher, but the Rocky Mountains lower and less broad. M»st of the continent ixhibited aa undulating surface : rounded hills and broad valleys...use its exuberant fertility. Flowers opened their many colored petals on meadow and hill-side, and filled the air with their fragrance, but only for... | |
| |
