 In the time of the Romans, the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying...  Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society - Page 58by American Antiquarian Society - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, the. Scotch fir... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Social Science - 1863 - 576 pages
...Eomans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech foresta. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1863 - 736 pages
...Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronzo period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1863 - 626 pages
...Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in tho world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...little or nothing towards modifying the character of tho forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 pages
...Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...have done little or nothing towards modifying the oha-= racter of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1863 - 602 pages
...the Romans, the Danish Isles, as now, were covered with magnificent beech forests. Eighteen centuries have done little or nothing towards modifying the...character of the forest vegetation; yet, in the antecedent period, contemporaneous with bronze in plants, there were no beech trees, or only, at most, a few stragglers,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1863 - 608 pages
...the Romans, the Danish Isles, as now, were covered with magnificent beech forests. Eighteen centuries have done little or nothing towards modifying the...of the forest vegetation ; yet, in the antecedent period, contemporaneous with bronze in plants, there were no beech trees, or only, at most, a few stragglers,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...Romans, the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...bronze period there were no beech trees, or, at most, but a few stragglers, the country being covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir... | |
 | John Kirk - Bible and geology - 1866 - 272 pages
...Romans the Danish isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...modifying the character of the forest vegetation." He holds that " in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or only but a few stragglers,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 622 pages
...Romans the Danish isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech-trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of... | |
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