 By felling the trees, that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two calamities for future generations ; the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation...  History of the West Indies ... - Strona 226autor: Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - Liczba stron: 602
...science," a subterranean issue must be admitted. By felling the trees, that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...calamities for future generations ; the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Threes, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - Liczba stron: 590
...science,"a subterranean issue must be admitted. By felling the trees, that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...calamities for future generations ; the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - Liczba stron: 602
...science," a subterranean issue must be admitted. By felling the trees, that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...calamities for future generations ; the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - Liczba stron: 360
...explain the successive diminution of the lake. By felling the trees that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...for future generations, — the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, hy the nature of their respiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | 1831 - Liczba stron: 660
...Emigrntors. — By felling the trees that cover the tops and sides of the mountains, (says de ilumboldt,) men in every climate prepare at once two calamities...generations, — the want of fuel and the scarcity of water. Euler. — This celebrated mathematician, before his death, expressed a wish that for each forty consecutive... | |
 | 1850 - Liczba stron: 874
...of Ilumboldt to enforce this view : — " By felling the trees that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...calamities for future generations — the want of fuel and a scarcity of water ; trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and radiation from their leaves in... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - Liczba stron: 780
...of Humboldt to enforce my own view : — " By felling the trees that cover the tops and the sides of mountains, men in every climate prepare at once two...calamities for future generations — the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 392
...cover the tops and sides of the mountains," says Humboldt, " men, in every climate, prepare at once for two calamities for future generations— the want of fuel and the scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves, in a cloudless sky,... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 446
...Humboldt, that men in every climate, by felling the trees that cover the tops and sides of mountains, prepare at once two calamities for future generations — the want of fuel and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration, and the radiation from their leaves... | |
 | 1851 - Liczba stron: 406
...— JANUARY 1851. L there is none. " By felling the trees," says Humboldt, as quoted by Balfour, " that cover the tops and sides of the mountains, men...calamities for future generations ; the want of fuel, and a scarcity of water. Trees, by the nature of their perspiration and the radiation from their leaves... | |
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