 | Malthe Conrad Bruun - 1822 - 686 pages
...Fertility. If the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human art, we might, in a space of twenty leagues, bring together in Syria the...peculiar to different localities. Palestine abounds in scsamum, which affords oil; and in doura, similar to that of Egypt. Maize thrives in the light soil... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - 1826 - 674 pages
...Fertility. If the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human art, we might, in a space of twenty leagues, bring together in Syria the...beans, and the cotton plant, which are cultivated every w here, there are several objects of utility or pleasure peculiar to differ* ent localities. Palestine... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - 1831 - 466 pages
...has been remarked that, if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might in the space of twenty leagues bring together...countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the cotton-plant, which are cultivated every where, there are several objects of utility or pleasure, peculiar... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1833 - 374 pages
...has been remarked that, if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might in the space of twenty leagues bring together...countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the cotton-plant, which are cultivated everywhere, there are several objects of utility or pleasure, peculiar... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1833 - 350 pages
...countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the cotton-plant, which are eultivated everywhere, there are several objects of utility or pleasure, peculiar to different localities. Palestine, for example, abounds in sesamum, which affords oil ; and in dhoura, similar to that of Egypt. Maize... | |
 | 1835 - 350 pages
...has been remarked that, if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might in the space of twenty leagues bring together...countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the cotton-plant, which artcultivated everywhere, there are several objects of utility or pleasure, peculiar... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 604 pages
...has been remarked, that if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might, in the space of twenty leagues, bring together in Syria all the vegetable riches of the most distant countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 618 pages
...has been remarked, that if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might, in the space of twenty leagues, bring together in Syria all the vegetable riches of the most distant countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...Dr. Russell, " that, if the advantages of nature -were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might in the space of twenty leagues bring together...pleasure, peculiar to different localities. Palestine, for example, abounds in sesam mn, which affords oil ; and indhoura, similar to that of Egypt. Maize... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pages
...seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might, in the space of 20 leagues, bring together in Syria all the vegetable riches of the most distant countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans, and the cotton-plant, which are cultivated everywhere, there are several objects of utility or pleasure, peculiar... | |
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It has been remarked that, if the advantages of nature were duly seconded by the efforts of human skill, we might in the space of twenty leagues bring together in Syria the vegetable riches of the most distant countries. Besides wheat, rye, barley, beans,... 
