 | 1800 - 574 pages
...soil, is cleared and adapted to cultivation, by being shelved into horizontal beds ; not a slope, nor narrow slip of land between the ridges, lies unimproved....extravagant traits of rude nature and laborious art. ' Tibet, on the other hand, strikes a traveller, at first sight, as one of the least favoured countries... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1802 - 650 pages
...forests of large and lofty trees. Almost every favourable aspect of them, coated with the smallest smallest quantity of soil, is cleared and adapted...villages, amidst orchards, and other plantations, on their summit!! and on their sides. It combines in its extent, the most extravagant traits of rude nature,... | |
 | 1800 - 572 pages
...cleared and adapted to cultivation, by being shelved into horizontal beds ; not a slope, nor narrftw slip of land between the ridges, lies unimproved....sides. It combines, in its extent, the most extravagant traiIs of rude - nature and laborious art. , ' Tibet, on the other hand, strikes a traveller, at first... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 688 pages
...villes." * Turner's Embassy to Tibet, book i. ch. iv. f Ibid. VOL. I. 3 P 474 Cochin-Chinese. BOOK II. smallest quantity of soil, is cleared and adapted...sides. It combines in its extent the most extravagant tracts of rude nature and laborious art." * Yet they have no discipline in their armies. In their mode... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 700 pages
...Cochin-Chinese. BOOK II. smallest quantity of soil, is cleared and adapted to cultivation, by being shelved ~~"v into horizontal beds ; not a slope or narrow slip...sides. It combines in its extent the most extravagant tracts of rude nature and laborious art." * Yet they have no discipline in their armies. In their mode... | |
 | James Mill - 1820 - 480 pages
...between the ridges lies unimproved. There is BOOK H. scarcely a mountain whose base is not washed by HAP' some rapid torrent, and many of the loftiest bear...sides. It combines in its extent the most extravagant tracts of rude nature and laborious art."1' Yet they have no discipline in their armies. In their mode... | |
 | 1821 - 768 pages
...province of Thibet. It abounds in mountains covered with verdure, and rich with abundant forest trees ; there is scarcely a mountain whose base is not washed by some torrent, and many of the loftiest bear populous villages, amid ' orchards and plantations, on their... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...narrow •Ajp of land between the ridges lies unimproved. There is scarcely a mountain whose base n not washed by some rapid torrent, and many of the loftiest bear populous villages, anidst orchards and other plantations, on their summits artd on their sides. It combines in its extent... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...narrow •1ц» of land between the ridges lies unimproved. Thereis scarcely a mountain whose base U not washed by some rapid torrent, and many of the...extravagant traits of rude nature and laborious art. IDA. 7*tfi-f , on the other hand, strikes a traveller, at first sight, ля one of the least favored... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1827 - 756 pages
...and w by Sikkim. It abounds in mountains covered with verdure, and rich with 'abundant forest-trees : there is scarcely a mountain whose base is not washed by some torrent, and many of the loftiest bear populous villages, amid orchards and plantations, ou their sides.... | |
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Bootan presents to the view, nothing but the most mishapen irregularities; mountains covered with eternal verdure, and rich with abundant forests of large and lofty trees. Almost every favourable aspect of them, coated with the smallest quantity of soil,... 
