 In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora: the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, — a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree-fern,...  The Ladies' Companion - Seite 311857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1857 - 780 Seiten
...tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucimaiu, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsute lepidodendron....shallow lake, or running stream appeared from where Melville Island now spreads out ils ice wastes under the •tir of the pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | 1856 - 754 Seiten
...umbrageous youth, — a youth of dark and tangled forests — of huge pines and stately acancaries — of the reed-like calamite — the tall tree-fern,...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its icewastes, under the star of the Pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 60 Seiten
...umbrageous youth — a youth of dusk and tangled forests — of huge pines and stately araucarias — of the reed-like calamite — the tall treefern —...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its ice-wastes, under the star of the Pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 60 Seiten
...umbrageous youth — a youth of dusk and tangled forests — of huge pines and stately araucarias — of the reed-like calamite — the tall treefern —...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its ice-wastes, under the star of the Pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 52 Seiten
...umbrageous youth — a youth of dusk and tangled forests — of huge pines and stately araucarias — of the reed-like calamite — the tall treefern —...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its ice-wastes, under the star of the Pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | 1854 - 788 Seiten
...umbrageous youth — a youth of dusk and tangled forests — of huge pines and stately araucarias — of the reed-like calamite — the tall tree-fern — the sculptured sigillaria — and the hirsute lepidudendron. Wherever dry land, or shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville... | |
 | 1856 - 600 Seiten
...such a flora ; the yonth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth — a yonth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians,...tall tree-fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsnte lepidodendron."* Of the creation or appointment of the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day,... | |
 | Creative week - 1856 - 414 Seiten
...flora — the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth of dusky and entangled forests — of huge pines and stately araucarians...sculptured sigillaria — and the hirsute lepidodendron" — (Geol., pp. 20 and 21). Mr Richardson's list of the plants of the same period is the following... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 532 Seiten
...such a flora: the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, — a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians,...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its ice wastes under the star of the pole, to where the arid plains... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...such a flora : the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, — a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians,...shallow lake, or running stream appeared, from where Melville Island now spreads out its ice wastes under the star of the pole, to where the arid plains... | |
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