 | 1872 - 828 σελίδες
...woods, we find symmetrical, solid trunks of six feet and upwards in diameter, and fifty feet, or more, long to be not uncommon, in half a dozen or more species...great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of those which lifts itself so high... | |
 | 1872 - 830 σελίδες
...woods, we find symmetrical, solid trunks of six feet and upwards in diameter, and fifty feet, or more, long to be not uncommon, in half a dozen or more species...; while now and then we happen on one of those old sypamores, for which the rich alluvial bottoms of the western rivers are so famous, with a trunk thirty... | |
 | 1872 - 824 σελίδες
...woods, we find symmetrical, solid trunks of six feet and upwards in diameter, and fifty feet, or more, long to be not uncommon, in half a dozen or more species...great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of those which lifts itself so high... | |
 | 1910 - 566 σελίδες
...woods, we find symmetrical, solid trunks of six feet and upwards in diameter, and fifty feet, or more, long to be not uncommon in half a dozen or more species;...great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of those which lifts itself so high... | |
 | George F. Peterken - 1996 - 542 σελίδες
...we find symmetrical, solid trunks up to six feet and upwards in diameter, and fifty feet, or more, long to be not uncommon, in half a dozen or more species;...stretch out its great white arms, each as large as the trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of those which lifts itself... | |
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... go beyond, an elevation of one hundred and seventy-five feet ! The maximum elevation of the tallest sycamore and tulip trees is probably not less than two hundred feet. Going into these primitive woods, we find symmetrical, solid trunks of six feet... 