 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 páginas
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ! Yet... | |
 | 1819 - 424 páginas
...Йк! destruction of his timber, W«ul<l it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some 14 thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and... | |
 | 1820 - 422 páginas
...the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high 1 Yet,... | |
 | 1826 - 376 páginas
...of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larva; of an insect or fly no longer than a grain of rice, should silently and in one season,...from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road from George Town to Charleston, ih South... | |
 | 1821 - 498 páginas
...than a grain of rice, should silently,and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever pusses along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in SouthCarolina,... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 páginas
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice should silently, and...from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ! Yet, whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown and Charlestown, in South... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 620 páginas
...of the ivory-billed wood-pecker, says, " Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and 150 feet high ? In some places, the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 440 páginas
...the ivory-billed woodpecker, says, •' would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 páginas
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larva; of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high! Yet whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in South... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 páginas
...of the ivory-billed wood-pecker, says, " Would it be believed that the larvœ of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and 150 feet high ? In some places, the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped... | |
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Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high! 
