 | Athanaïs Mialaret Michelet ("Mme. Jules Michelet, "), Madame Jules Michelet - 1872 - 474 pages
...which arrest the progress of the sea-born clouds, and compel them to refresh the earth ; it is they which pacify the storm, and avert its most disastrous...their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to descend, and construct at a lower depth their useful reservoirs. And now, on the abrupt declivities they consolidate... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...which arrest the progress of the sea-born clouds, and compel them to refresh the earth ; it is they which pacify the storm, and avert its most disastrous...their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to. descend, and construct at a lower depth their useful reservoirs. And now, on the abrupt declivities they consolidate... | |
 | 1883 - 174 pages
...which arrest the progress of the sea-born clouds, and compel them to refresh the earth ; it is they which pacify the storm, and avert its most disastrous...their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to descend, and construct at a lower depth their useful reservoirs. And now, on the abrupt declivities they consolidate... | |
 | 1883 - 158 pages
...which arrest the progress of the sea-born clouds, and compel them to refresh the earth ; it is they which pacify the storm, and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low- lying plains, which had no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man,... | |
 | John Bradley Peaslee - 1884 - 76 pages
...their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 pages
...their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their... | |
 | Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 162 pages
...their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their... | |
 | Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 164 pages
...their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 pages
...their foliage, avaricious collectors to the advantage of future ages of the solar heat, it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous consequences. In the low-lying plains, which have no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics - 1891 - 786 pages
...which arrest the progress of the sea-born clouds and compel them to refresh the earth ; it is they which pacify the storm and avert its most disastrous...their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to descend and construct at a lower level their useful reservoirs. And now, on the abrupt declivities they consolidate... | |
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In the low-lying plains, which had no outlet for their waters, the trees, long before the advent of man, drained the soil by their roots, forcing the stagnant waters to descend, and construct at a lower depth their useful reservoirs. And now, on the abrupt... 
