| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...description, applies more particularly to the ridges, which separate the slopes on different streams. The ridge lands are always level, and very poor, sometimes...which is caused by the fineness of its particles. Whortleberry bushes as well as pines, are abundant on ridge lands, and numerous shallow basins are... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...description applies more particularly to the ridges which separate the slopes on different streams. The ridge lands are always level, and very poor —...stiffer than would be inferred from the proportion of silicious earth they contain, which is caused by the fineness of its particles. Whortleberry bushes,... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...description applies more particularly to the ridges which separate the slopes on different streams. The ridge lands are always level, and very poor —...stiffer than would be inferred from the proportion of silicious earth they contain, which is caused by the fineness of its particles. Whortleberry bushes,... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...by severe cultivation. Though thin, sandy and poor, and considered as almost valueless,, these lands have been made fertile by using the marls and shells...stifFer than would be inferred from the proportion of silicious earth they contain, which is caused by the fineness of its particles."* These evils " vary... | |
| M. B. Hillyard - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...sometimes clayey, more generally sandy, but stiffer than would be inferred from the proportion of silicioua earth they contain, which is caused by the fineness...with rain water in winter and are dry in summer. The soils of the MIDDLE COUNTRY vary, of course, as the rocks do which they overlie. In a work on the Geology... | |
| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 898
...description, applies more particularly to the ridges, which separate the slopes on different streams. The ridge lands are always level, and very poor, sometimes clayey — more generally sandy, but suffer than would be inferred from the proportion of siliceous earth they contain, which is caused... | |
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