| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 360 pages
...hills towards the two mountainous tracts in the northern and southern parts of the island. It was now that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...civilized countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to realize the fact, that in this remote 'and little... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...hills toward the two mountainous tracts in the northern and southern parts of the island. It was now that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing in the labor that has been bestowed upon it any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries of Europe.... | |
| Royal Society of New South Wales - 1882 - 528 pages
...all that is related of Chinese industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing in the labour bestowed on it any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to realize the fact that in this remote and little known... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1885 - 686 pages
...hills toward the two mountainous tracts in the northern and southern parts of the island. It was now that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...most wonderful systems of cultivation in the world, equalhng all that is related of Chinese industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing in the labor that... | |
| Franklin Hiram King - 1898 - 542 pages
...regarding the island of Lombock, still to the east of Java, Mr. Arthur R. Wallace writes : "It was here that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...most- wonderful systems of cultivation in the world, equaling all that is related of Chinese industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing, in the labor bestowed... | |
| Franklin Hiram King - 1898 - 542 pages
...all that is related of Chinese industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing, in the labor bestowed on it, any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to realize the fact that in this remote and little known... | |
| Franklin Hiram King - 1898 - 544 pages
...obtained an adequate idea of one of the most wonderful systems of cultivation in the world, equaling all that is related of Chinese industry, and, as far as I know, surpassing, in the labor bestowed on it, any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries of Europe. I rode through... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1902 - 566 pages
...hills towards the two mountainous tracts in the northern and southern parts of the island. It was now that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...as far as I know surpassing in the labour that has l>een bestowed upon it any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries or Europe. I rode... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1917 - 528 pages
...hills towards the two mountainous tracts in the northern and southern parts of the island. It was now that I first obtained an adequate idea of one of the...bestowed upon it any tract of equal extent in the most civilised countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to... | |
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