 | Joseph Beete Jukes - 1842 - 372 halaman
...surface-drainage ; and when the moss is stripped off, dry gravel or bare rock is generally found beneath. The "barrens" of Newfoundland are those districts...of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, and are somewhat similar in appearance to the moorlands of the north of England, differing... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 halaman
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 602 halaman
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The ' barrens ' of Newfoundland are those districts...of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 halaman
...thoroughly saturated with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews. The " barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts...of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - 1883 - 710 halaman
...continually succeed each other, the former never rising into mountains, the highest not exceeding 1500 feet, and the latter rarely expanding into plains....various kinds. Bare patches of gravel and boulders, and crumbling fragments of rock, are frequently met with on the " barrens," which are generally destitute... | |
 | Charles Francis King - 1890 - 344 halaman
...centre appears to consist of high, rocky hills, which gradually slope away in all directions to the sea. expanding into plains. The 'barrens' of Newfoundland...which occupy the summits of the hills and ridges. They are covered with a thin vegetation. Lakes, marshes, and rivers abound everywhere, and the soil... | |
 | George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson - 1990 - 858 halaman
...Broadside at Parting": Farewell to each mountain and moor, / Each desolate barren and bog. 1843 JUKES 22 The 'barrens' of Newfoundland are those districts...They are covered with a thin and scrubby vegetation. . .and are somewhat similar in appearance to the moorlands of the north of England, differing only... | |
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barrens " of Newfoundland are those districts which occupy the summits of the hills and ridges, and other' elevated and exposed tracts. They are covered with a thin and scrubby vegetation, consisting of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various... 