 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 566 ページ
...pounds.' — p. 316. But the whole vegetable part of the creation is here on a magnificent scale. ' There is nothing more striking in the Malayan forests...seldom under a hundred, and generally approaching a hun« dred and sixty to two hundred, feet in height. One tree that we measured was, in circumference,... | |
 | 1830 - 436 ページ
...flower fifteen pounds." But the whole vegetable part of the creation is here on a magnificent scale. " There is nothing more striking in the Malayan forests...suspended for more than a hundred feet, in girth not less then a man's body, and many much thicker; the trees seldom under a hundred, and generally approaching... | |
 | 1844 - 372 ページ
...contrasts strikingly with the stunted, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with these forest trees your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...hundred feet, in girth not less than a man's body ; the trees seldom under a hundred, and generally approaching a hundred and sixty to two hundred feet... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - 360 ページ
...with the stunted, and, I had almost said, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with our fr-uit-trees, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...larger trees, and hanging suspended for more than 10(J feet, in girth not less than a man's body, antTmany much thicker; the trees seldom under 100,... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - 292 ページ
...the stunted, and, I hiul ulmo»t said, pigmy vegetation of England. Coniparrd with our fruit-trees, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...larger trees, and hanging suspended for more than 100 feet, in girth not less than a man's body, and 'many much thicker; the trees seldom under 10. i,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 ページ
...with the stunted, and I had almost said, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with our fruit-trees, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...entwining larger trees, and hanging suspended for more tharr one hundred feet, in girth not less than a man's body, and many much thicker ; the trees seldom... | |
 | 1837 - 490 ページ
...with the stunted, and I had almost said, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with our fruit-tree*, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...larger trees, and hanging suspended for more than one hundred feet, in girth not less than a man's body, and many much* thicker ; the trees seldom under... | |
 | 1837 - 490 ページ
...with the stunted, and I had almost said, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with our fruit-trees, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...larger trees, and hanging suspended for more than one hundred feet, in girth not less than a man's body, and many much thicker ; the trees seldom under... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 812 ページ
...with the stunted, and, I had almost said, pigmy vegetation of England. Compared with our fruit trees, your largest oak is a mere dwarf. Here we have creepers...body, and many much thicker ; the trees seldom under 100, and generally I60 to 200 feet in height." In most of his excursions, Sir Stamford was accompanied... | |
 | 1845 - 518 ページ
...tigers and other wild beasts. The forests were extensive, and the trees magnificent. " Here," says he, " we have creepers and vines entwining larger trees,...feet, in girth not less than a man's body, and many thicker. The trees are seldom under a hundred, and generally approaching a hundred and sixty to two... | |
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Compared with our forest-trees, your largest oak is a mere/ dwarf. Here we have creepers and vines entwining larger trees, and hanging suspended for more than a hundred feet, — in girth not less than a man's body, and many much thicker. The trees seldom... 
