| Alexander Forbes - 1839 - 402 strani
...growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away, and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...beautifully diversified with pleasing eminences and vallies ; which, with the lofty range of mountains that bounded the prospect, required only to be adorned... | |
| Brantz Mayer - 1844 - 494 strani
...with the trne old English oak, with its undergrowth cut away, and the stately lords of the forest left in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...beautifully diversified with pleasing eminences and vales." In the garden of the Mission of Bnenaventura, Vancouver was struck with the quantity and variety... | |
| 1846 - 730 strani
...growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away, and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...bounded the prospect, required only to be adorned with the neat habitations of an industrious people, to produce a scene not inferior to the most studied... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1854 - 732 strani
...which, with the lofty range of mountains that bounded the prospect, required only to bo adorned with the neat habitations of an industrious people, to produce...studied effect of taste in the disposal of grounds." — Vancouver's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 16. words of her language, she readily complied ; and in a few... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1854 - 744 strani
...growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away, and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered with luxuriant herbage, and beautiSanta Clara was but recently occupied by a priest ; it has now shared the fate of all the other... | |
| Frederic Hall - 1871 - 420 strani
...growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...studied effect of taste in the disposal of grounds." In speaking of Santa Clara Mission he observed : "It is situated in an extensive fertile plain, the... | |
| Frederic Hall - 1871 - 618 strani
...•*•«•'.•* of having been cleared away and had left the • /»tfl,*' stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...mountains that bounded the prospect, required only tt> be adorned with neat habitations of an industrious people to produce a scene not inferior to the... | |
| Frederic Hall - 1871 - 576 strani
...growth, had the appearancft of having .been cleared away and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered...valleys, which, with the lofty range of mountains that bonded the prospect, required only to be adorned with neat habitations of an industrious people to... | |
| 1883 - 358 strani
...growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away, and had left " the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was " covered...with pleasing " eminences and valleys, which with the range of lofty, rugged mountains that " bounded the prospect, required only to be adorned with the... | |
| George Canning - 1887 - 424 strani
...the range of lofty rugged mountains that bounded the prospect, required only to be adorned with the neat habitations of an industrious people to produce...studied effect of taste in the disposal of grounds.' Yet in this delightful terrestrial paradise, thus seen and thus described by Vancouver, under a November... | |
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