| 1863 - 404 pages
...stature ; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it ; and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...for us some short time ago by the magnolias of the Susquehauna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and Amazon, the giant rhododendrons of the... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing was eliminated for us some short time ago by the magnolias of the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon—the giant rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to it, and the roses... | |
| David Page - 1864 - 352 pages
...stature; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it; and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...the Susquehanna and the great trees that skirt the Amazon and the Orinocco ; the great rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to it; and the roses... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 372 pages
...the palms and bananas of Japan change it into flowers. The oxygen we are now breathing was, in part, distilled for us, some short time ago, by the magnolias of the South, and the roses and myrtles of Cashmere ; and, in part, forests older than the flood supplied... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...stature; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon—the giant rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to it, and the roses... | |
| Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 pages
...change it into flowers. Contrariwise, the oxygen we are taking in was distilled for us, some little time ago, by the magnolias of the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon. The rhododendrons of the Himalayahs contribute to it, the roses and myrtles... | |
| Easy geography - 1867 - 72 pages
...stature ; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it ; and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Amazon and the Orinoco ; the great rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to it; and the roses... | |
| William Hughes - 1868 - 346 pages
...statures; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it, and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon, the giant rhododendrons of the Himalaya, contributed to it, and the roses and... | |
| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...for the purposes of animal life, the writer pursues his remarks, — " The oxygen we are hreathing was distilled for us, some short time ago, by the magnolias of Susquehanna and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon — the giant rhododendrons of... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...stature ; the cocoa-nuts of Tahiti will grow rapidly upon it ; and the palms and bananas of Japan will change it into flowers. The oxygen we are breathing...the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Orinoco and the Amazon ; the giant rhododendrons of the Himalayas contributed to it, and the roses... | |
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