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Page 26
... Indians , where such increase of cattell hath been that of twelue head of beasts in 25. yeeres , did in the hides of them raise 1000 . pound profite yeerely , that the increase of cattell onely would raise profite sufficient for the ...
... Indians , where such increase of cattell hath been that of twelue head of beasts in 25. yeeres , did in the hides of them raise 1000 . pound profite yeerely , that the increase of cattell onely would raise profite sufficient for the ...
Page 91
... Indian Corn , Peas , Beans , Potatoes , and Tobacco . This Indian Corn was the Staff of Food , upon which the Indians did ever depend ; for when Sickness , bad Weather , War , or any other ill Accident kept them from Hunting , Fishing ...
... Indian Corn , Peas , Beans , Potatoes , and Tobacco . This Indian Corn was the Staff of Food , upon which the Indians did ever depend ; for when Sickness , bad Weather , War , or any other ill Accident kept them from Hunting , Fishing ...
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... Indian family . Therefore , the Indians could hardly subsist for one month upon the produce of their gardens and fields . Commonly , the little villages of Indians are about twelve or eighteen miles distant from each other . Hence one ...
... Indian family . Therefore , the Indians could hardly subsist for one month upon the produce of their gardens and fields . Commonly , the little villages of Indians are about twelve or eighteen miles distant from each other . Hence one ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods