| 1829 - 696 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...distress the farmer inconceivably. Any attempt at computation would be vain ; and, by trying to come near the truth, the writer would subject himself,... | |
| George Thompson - 1827 - 576 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted droughts, distress the farmer inconJULY 1 . — This forenoon I ascended the first part of the Nieuwveld ridge of mountains, being... | |
| James Rennie - 1829 - 438 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted droughts, distress the fanner inconceivably. Any attempt at numerical computation would be vain; and by trying to come near... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1827 - 686 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted droughts, distress the fanner inconceivably. Any attempt at numc'i'cal computation would be vain; and by trying to come near... | |
| Richard Brookes - 1839 - 834 páginas
...incredible numbers wnich sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted droughts, distress ihe farmer inconceivably. Any attempt at numerical computation would be vain ; and by trying to come near ihe truth, the writer would subject himself in the eyes of those who have no knowledge of the country,... | |
| William Swainson - 1840 - 394 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north during protracted...the truth, the writer would subject himself, in the estimation of those who have no knowledge of the country, to a suspicion of exaggeration. And yet it... | |
| 1846 - 544 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north during protracted droughts, distress the farmer inconceivably. The springbok, like the hare, conceals itself in cover during the day, and resorts to the open plain... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive a« the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...inconceivably. Any attempt at numerical computation would be in vain. In the interior, the grazier makes up his mind to look for pasture for his flocks elsewhere,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 724 páginas
...Arabians, Persians, and Turks, breed up for this purthemselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes poor in from the north, during protracted droughts, distress...writer would subject himself, in the eyes of those who bave no knowledge of the country, to a suspicion that he was availing himself of a traveller's assumed... | |
| 1857 - 498 páginas
...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locust» them-elvcs. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...numerical computation would be vain ; and by trying 10 come near the truth, the writer would subject himself, ш the eyes of those who have no knowledge... | |
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