| 1821 - 444 halaman
...one above another ; the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if smitten with an axe. The marks of this desolation remain for...could be pointed out where, for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable had made its appearance. ' When these roosts are first discovered, the... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 halaman
...trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitant from considerable distances, visit them in the night,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1831 - 484 halaman
...trees broken off by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. " VV hen these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 halaman
...trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 478 halaman
...by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves; WILD PIGEON. fur thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled...roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from con. eiderablc distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and... | |
| Thomas Campbell Eyton - 1836 - 200 halaman
...trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another, and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in the... | |
| John Wesley - 1836 - 414 halaman
...trees, broke down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another: and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed, as completely as if...scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in the... | |
| William Swainson - 1840 - 394 halaman
...trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another; and the trees, themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance." But we must pass over a large portion of this wonderful... | |
| Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 halaman
...trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another, and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...could be pointed out, where for several years after scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance. " When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants... | |
| 1846 - 872 halaman
...above another — a single tree often containing above one hundred nests — and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in... | |
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