The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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... are now within measurable distance of becoming extinct , the present generation caring nothing for the next . But it is not so in India . Nature has there provided a safeguard against the entire spoiling of its beautiful and X INTRODUCTION.
... are now within measurable distance of becoming extinct , the present generation caring nothing for the next . But it is not so in India . Nature has there provided a safeguard against the entire spoiling of its beautiful and X INTRODUCTION.
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... when so many go to India and in India so many go to the hills . In the year ) 1861 , however , it was a much more primitive place than * Cupressus torulosa . it is at present . It had only recently been 8 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA.
... when so many go to India and in India so many go to the hills . In the year ) 1861 , however , it was a much more primitive place than * Cupressus torulosa . it is at present . It had only recently been 8 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA.
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Thomas W. Webber. it is at present . It had only recently been adopted as a sanatorium for troops . The Commissioner of Kumaon , Colonel Ramsay , C.B. , had some years previously dis- covered it . There was in those days only a vague ...
Thomas W. Webber. it is at present . It had only recently been adopted as a sanatorium for troops . The Commissioner of Kumaon , Colonel Ramsay , C.B. , had some years previously dis- covered it . There was in those days only a vague ...
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... present himself at the tent door to pay a friendly visit , bringing always a bunch of ripe plantains or some very fine oranges or pommeloes . * His greatest trouble was the constant terror of the tigers which frequented the dense ...
... present himself at the tent door to pay a friendly visit , bringing always a bunch of ripe plantains or some very fine oranges or pommeloes . * His greatest trouble was the constant terror of the tigers which frequented the dense ...
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... present the uniform appearance of American forests , or of artificially formed plantations , where all the trees are of the same age and height , crowded together like a field of corn . Where the soil is deep , on the less precipitous ...
... present the uniform appearance of American forests , or of artificially formed plantations , where all the trees are of the same age and height , crowded together like a field of corn . Where the soil is deep , on the less precipitous ...
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