Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lecture on the Constitution of Old Pastures and Meadows: Delivered January 14, 1869
Thus speak the learned French authorities whom I have quoted, and they go on to give the picture Of some of the lands in detail, of Sicily, Algeria, Syria, etc., where the hills despoiled of their forests, and not clothed with grass, have been the prey of the storms for twenty or thirty centuries, the climate has been changed, the rains are capricious and vio lent, at times the soil has been washed from the hills, leaving but their rocky skeletons, the valleys half depopulated by the over?ow of gravel from the hills, and the countries, once the types of wealth, now that of desolation and poverty.
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