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Page 43
... miles , which is a neck of land making out about one mile into the lake from the W. shore , and is the nar- rowest part of the lake . From here to the upper end the course is nearly due W. about 10 miles , making its whole length 22 miles ...
... miles , which is a neck of land making out about one mile into the lake from the W. shore , and is the nar- rowest part of the lake . From here to the upper end the course is nearly due W. about 10 miles , making its whole length 22 miles ...
Page 134
... miles west of Fort Hayes , vegetation begins to suffer from the diminution in the rain - fall , and the general fertility which I have been describing gradually disappears . Streams become less frequent , and dry arroyos take their ...
... miles west of Fort Hayes , vegetation begins to suffer from the diminution in the rain - fall , and the general fertility which I have been describing gradually disappears . Streams become less frequent , and dry arroyos take their ...
Page 135
... miles west of Hayes , to within twenty miles of Fort Wallace , a district of about sixty miles across , and even over this sixty miles there was no lack of forage ; and in many places very fair grazing could be had , suitable either for ...
... miles west of Hayes , to within twenty miles of Fort Wallace , a district of about sixty miles across , and even over this sixty miles there was no lack of forage ; and in many places very fair grazing could be had , suitable either for ...
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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