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... streams take their rise ; then gently creep along thro the winding valleys , and in their course these winding streams , form a great quantity of excellent meadow land . These streams uniting increase their consequence ; the meadows ...
... streams take their rise ; then gently creep along thro the winding valleys , and in their course these winding streams , form a great quantity of excellent meadow land . These streams uniting increase their consequence ; the meadows ...
Page 184
... streams . There was commonly a foot or more of vegetable mould , porous as a sponge , and capable of retaining a rainfall of several inches , which it yielded slowly to the streams . This was overlaid in every direction by fallen trees ...
... streams . There was commonly a foot or more of vegetable mould , porous as a sponge , and capable of retaining a rainfall of several inches , which it yielded slowly to the streams . This was overlaid in every direction by fallen trees ...
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... streams are turned into open fields , so that the over- flowing water has no longer to creep through a tangle of ... streams of the Tennessee , Cumberland , Kentucky , Licking , Sandy , Kanawha , Monongahela , etc. These forests clothe ...
... streams are turned into open fields , so that the over- flowing water has no longer to creep through a tangle of ... streams of the Tennessee , Cumberland , Kentucky , Licking , Sandy , Kanawha , Monongahela , etc. These forests clothe ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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