 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 pages
...intelligent proprietor of the forest deplores, as the sole perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect,...place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of... | |
 | 1819 - 424 pages
...a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some 14 thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty 1'eet high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown and Charleston, ш South Carolina,... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pages
...the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one...feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high 1 Yet, whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty... | |
 | 1821 - 498 pages
...believed that the larvje of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently,and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees,...diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever pusses along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in SouthCarolina, about 20 miles from the... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pages
...hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road from George Town to Charleston, ih South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proof of this fact. In some places, the whole woods, as far as' you can see around you, are dead, stripped... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 pages
...than a grain of rice should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and...whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown and Charlestown, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pages
...than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and...high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road, from George Town to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 442 pages
...than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pages
...than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and...place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. la some places In looking over the accounts given of the ivorybilled woodpecker by the naturalists... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pages
...than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and...place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of... | |
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... many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high? Yet whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy... 
