 A failure of harvests is said never to have been known in that country ; the average yield of wheat is thirty-five to forty bushels an acre, and oats have yielded a hundred bushels. Apples and peaches thrive, and are of a superior quality. The country...  Glimpses of California and the Missions - Stran 281avtor: Helen Hunt Jackson - 1907 - 292 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1839 - 534 strani
...speaks of it as a land well watered, very fertile, with beautiful pastures for cattle, and possessing a climate neither too cold in winter nor too hot in summer. The western part of Messenia is drained by the river Pamisus, which rises in the mountains between... | |
 | 1839 - 1032 strani
...speaks of it as a land well watered, very fertile, with beautiful pastures for cattle, and possessing a climate neither too cold in winter nor too hot in summer. The western part of Messenia is drained by the river Pamisus, which rises in the mountains between... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1853 - 614 strani
...speaks of it as a land well watered and very fertile, with beautiful pastures for cattle, possessing a climate neither too cold in winter nor too hot in summer. It is separated from Laconia by the mountain chain of Taygetus on the east, and from Elis and Arcadia... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1898 - 436 strani
...fringed leggings, a pale green blanket, and on her head a twisted handkerchief of a fine old Dtirer red. As she poised herself, and braced backwards to...sea. Hearing all the unquestionable tributes to the beautj' and value of this Walla Walla region, I could not but recall some of Chief Joseph's pleas that... | |
 | 1888 - 974 strani
...Walla region unvisited, for the sake of seeing Puget Sound. The Walla Walla region is said to be the О finest stretch of wheat country in the world. Lava...Joseph's pleas that a small share of it should be left in their possession who once owned it all. From our pilot, on the way down, I heard an Indian story, too... | |
 | 1883 - 998 strani
...soil, — deep and seemingly of inexhaustible fertility. A failure of harvests is said never to havo been known in that country ; the average yield of...summer, and of a bracing quality not found nearer tho sea. Hearing all the unquestionable tributes to the beauty and value of this Walla Walla region,... | |
 | 1883 - 894 strani
...soil, — deep and seemingly of inexhaustible fertility. A failure of harvests is said never to havo been known in that country ; the average yield of...Joseph's pleas that a small share of it should be left in their possession who once owned it all. From our pilot, on the way down, I heard an Indian story, too... | |
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