 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pages
...Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. In some places the whole woods, as far as you...blast, presenting a frightful picture of desolation. And yet ignorance and prejudice stubbornly persist in directing their indignation against the bird... | |
 | 1832 - 614 pages
...whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark, their wintry kicking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast.' In the last century, an insect, formica saecharivora, attacked the sugar-cane plantations in the island... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1838 - 618 pages
...thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and 150 feet high ? In some places, the whole woods, as far as you can...the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast." The subterraneous larvae of a species of beetle has often caused a complete failure of the seed-corn,... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pages
...whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark, their wintry looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast." It is also stated, that a small ant devours paper and parchment, and destroys every book and manuscript... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris, Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey - 1841 - 484 pages
...stripped of the bark, their wintry-looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun, and tumbling to ruins before every blast, presenting a frightful picture...remedy can be devised against these insects and their larvae, I would humbly suggest the propriety of protecting and receiving with proper feelings of gratitude... | |
 | William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger - 1845 - 142 pages
...whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark, their wintry looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun and tumbling...remedy can be devised against these insects and their larvae, I would humbly suggest the propriety of protecting, and receiving with proper feelings of gratitude,... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 pages
...some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and 150 feet high? In some places, the whole woods, as far as you can...the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast." The subterraneous larva; of a species of beetle has often caused a complete failure of the seed-corn,... | |
 | 1848 - 392 pages
...stripped of the bark, their wintry-looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the sun, and tumbling to ruins before every blast, presenting a frightful picture...remedy can be devised against these insects and their larvae, I would humbly suggest the propriety of protecting and receiving with proper feelings of gratitude... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 pages
...about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact ; and in some places the whole woods, as far as you can...blast, presenting a frightful picture of desolation. And yet ignorance and prejudice, it seems, persist in directing their indignation against the bird... | |
 | William Bourne Oliver Peabody - 1850 - 478 pages
...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...the sun, and tumbling in ruins before every blast." In the last century, an insect, formica saccharivora, attacked the sugar-cane plantations in the island... | |
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Carolina, about twenty miles from the former 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 the bark, their wintry-looking arms and bare trunks bleaching... 
