The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 - 908 pages |
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Page 50
... soil is fertile , producing grain , grapes , and other fruits . Some of the inhabitants devote themselves to agriculture , some to the rearing of cattle and horses , and not a few support themselves by piracy and robbery . Honey is ...
... soil is fertile , producing grain , grapes , and other fruits . Some of the inhabitants devote themselves to agriculture , some to the rearing of cattle and horses , and not a few support themselves by piracy and robbery . Honey is ...
Page 56
... soil , well watered by rivulets and brooks in the winter and spring , but these are generally dried up in the summer months . The streams run mostly into the Pescara , which bounds the province towards Abruzzo Citeriore , or into the ...
... soil , well watered by rivulets and brooks in the winter and spring , but these are generally dried up in the summer months . The streams run mostly into the Pescara , which bounds the province towards Abruzzo Citeriore , or into the ...
Page 87
... soil or climate were better on the upper side ( they might be worse ) , nor because any intelligent being chose which trees should be allowed to live and which should be destroyed ; -- but simply because , for a series of generations ...
... soil or climate were better on the upper side ( they might be worse ) , nor because any intelligent being chose which trees should be allowed to live and which should be destroyed ; -- but simply because , for a series of generations ...
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... soil in small fragments , but the chief supply comes from the Hazara country , and from Pirkisri , on the confines of Seistan , where there would seem to be a crater , or fuma- role . Sal - ammoniac is brought from the same place ...
... soil in small fragments , but the chief supply comes from the Hazara country , and from Pirkisri , on the confines of Seistan , where there would seem to be a crater , or fuma- role . Sal - ammoniac is brought from the same place ...
Page 242
... soil responds richly to irrigation whenever this is bestowed . The next stream that we meet with , and the last that can be con- sidered even as an indirect tributary of the Oxus , is that which fer- tilises the small khanates of ...
... soil responds richly to irrigation whenever this is bestowed . The next stream that we meet with , and the last that can be con- sidered even as an indirect tributary of the Oxus , is that which fer- tilises the small khanates of ...
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