 ... clothes him with its fleece. Not a tree is to be seen there to cast its shade upon the earth, or supply a covert for fierce or noxious animals. Grass is the sole vegetable. Nourished by a soil without stones, and of great depth, like the slimy and...  History of Turkey - Strona 179autor: Alphonse de Lamartine - 1855Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - Liczba stron: 388
...or noxious animals. Grass is the sole vegetation. Nourished by a soil without stones, like the slimy bottom of some ocean emptied by a cataclysm, watered...mounts to the height of parching, grass finds there its natural climate. It supplies the place of all other plants, all other fruits, all other crops.... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - Liczba stron: 384
...or noxious animals. Grass is the sole vegetation. Nourished by a soil without stones, like the slimy bottom of some ocean emptied by a cataclysm, watered...mounts to the height of parching, grass finds there its natural climate. It supplies the place of all other plants, all other fruits, all other crops.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1997 - Liczba stron: 634
...cataclysm ; watered by the oozings of the Alps of Thibet, the loftiest summits of Asia; preserved (luring the long winters by a carpet of snow, propitious to...mounts to the height of parching, grass finds there, ns it were, its natural climate. It supplies there all other plants, all other fruits, all other crops.... | |
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