 | 1880 - 996 pages
...previously visited by man was the English Chickweed ; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - 820 pages
...previously visited by man, was the English Chick-weed ; and this he traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with the plant ; 102 doubtless, he remarks, the offspring of seed that had adhered to the spade or mattock with which... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...previously visited by man, was the English chickweed ; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...the spade or mattock with which the grave had been dng. It was hence no surprise to me to find myself, on landing at Boston last summer, greeted by Western... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1881 - 272 pages
...previously visited by man was the English chickweed ; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 336 pages
...previously visited by man was the English chickweed ; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1892 - 272 pages
...mound that marked the grave of a llritisli Bailor, and that was covered with the plant, doubtless tlie offspring of seed that had adhered to the spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug.'1 Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 pages
...been previously visited by man was the English chickweed; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 266 pages
...been previously visited by man was the English chickweed; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 270 pages
...been previously visited by man was the English chickweed; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1901 - 298 pages
...previously visited by man was the English chickweed ; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with...spade or mattock with which the grave had been dug." Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy country. Weeds love a wide margin, and they find it here.... | |
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landing on a small uninhabited island nearly at the Antipodes, the first evidence I met with of its having been previously visited by man was the English chickweed; and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered... 
