 | Catherine Hutton - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...are an obstacle to vegetation and the circulation of air. In a few weeks these insects will consume the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind ; and in two or three years the spot on , which stood a large and populous town, having been abandoned by its... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...are an obstacle to vegetation and the circulation of air. In a few weeks these insects will consume the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind ; and in two or three years the spot on which stood a large and populous town, having been abandoned by its... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 182
...decay. Mr. Smeathman tells us, that the Termites will in a few weeks destroy and carry away the trunks of large trees, without leaving a particle behind...there has been a populous town, if the inhabitants have abandoned it, there will be a very thick wood, and not a vestige of a post to be seen. You may... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...none so expert, or who do their business so expeditiously and effectually as these insects, who in a few weeks destroy and carry away the bodies of large trees without leaving a particle behind, thus clearing the place for other vegetables, which soon fill up every vacancy; and in places, where... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...so expert, or who do their business so expeditiously and effectually, as these insects, which in a few weeks destroy and carry away the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind; thus clearing the place for other vegetables which soon fill up every vacancy: and in places where... | |
 | CHRISTIAN TRAVELLER. - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...vegetable substances which encumber the earth in tropical climates. In a few weeks these termites will destroy and carry away the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind; thus clearing the place for living vegetables, which soon fill up every vacancy ; and in places where,... | |
 | Samuel Abraham Walker - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...which these little creatnres raise in an incredibly short period of time. In a few weeks thev will destroy and carry away the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind. "When I consider what the Lord has suffered for sinners, I am wnr too much ; especially when I read... | |
 | 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...this is done with such expedition that they will, in a few weeks, destroy and carry away the trunks of large trees, without leaving a particle behind;...in places where, two or three years before, there was a populous town, if the inhabitants, as is frequently the case, have chosen to abandon it, there... | |
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... in a few weeks destroy and carry away the bodies of large trees, without leaving a particle behind; thus clearing the place for other vegetables which soon fill up every vacancy: and in places where two or three years before there has been a populous... 