 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 694 pages
...jealously excluded, many hundreds of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skillfully terraced and levelled, and so permeated by artificial...state of cultivation ; some in stubble, some being plowed, some with rice-crops in various stages of growth. Here were luxuriant patches of tobacco ;... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 594 pages
...traders at the port are jealously excluded, many hundreds of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skilfully terraced and levelled,...can be irrigated and dried at pleasure. According to the more or less (osfl 13 194 CULTIVATED GROUND. rapid slope of the ground, each terraced plot consists... | |
 | Franklin Hiram King - 1898 - 542 pages
...of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skillfully terraced and leveled and permeated by artificial channels that every portion of it can be irrigated and dried at pleasure." Passing, now, to the American continent, we have already referred to its prehistoric irrigation works,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1917 - 528 pages
...traders at the port, are jealously excluded, many hundreds of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skilfully terraced and levelled,...portion of it can be irrigated and dried at pleasure. Ascending as the slope of the ground is more or less rapid, each terraced plot consists in some places... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 2007 - 553 pages
...traders at the port are jealously excluded, many hundreds of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skilfully terraced and levelled,...rapid, each terraced plot consists in some places df many acres, in others of a few square yards. We saw them in every state of cultivation ; some in... | |
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... 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 island, from which all Europeans except a few traders at the port are jealously excluded, many hundreds... 