 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1836 - 440 pàgines
...further description of it. But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearancesomething which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium NootJtatensis... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker, G.A. Walker Arnott - 1841 - 700 pàgines
...following words :—“ But the great beauty of the Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearance,—something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pàgines
...century at the average rate of our White Pine for the same period, the estimate would be reduced to 1,100 years; which is probably much beneath the truth. But...tree," he says, " gives the mountains a most peculiar, was almost going to say, awful appearance, — something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe.... | |
 | Thomas Nuttall - 1852 - 326 pàgines
...Magazine, 2, p. 150. " But the great beauty of the California!! vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long, and 32 feet round at 3 feet above the ground. Some few I saw upwards of 300 feet high,... | |
 | 1854 - 710 pàgines
...inhabiting that coontry : ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pàgines
...reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 652 pàgines
...that country : ' But the great beauty of Californien vege tation is a species of Tajcodiimt, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet hing and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pàgines
...reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Tajcodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 616 pàgines
...in California. He says : " The great beauty of California vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful appearance. I have measured specimens 270 to 300 feet high, and 32 feet round, three feet from the ground." There... | |
 | 1859 - 574 pàgines
...verified. Douglas, in saying, " The great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful, appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe," evidently alludes to rather a common plant, such as the Redwood ( Taxodium,... | |
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But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearance — something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. 
