 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1836 - 440 σελίδες
...so that I will not trouble you with a further description of it. But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearancesomething which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium NootJtatensis... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker, G.A. Walker Arnott - 1841 - 700 σελίδες
...Bet. Meg. vol. II. p. 150.) in the following words :—“ But the great beauty of the Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearance,—something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 σελίδες
...observed by Douglas in Upper California. " This tree," he says, " gives the mountains a most peculiar, was almost going to say, awful appearance, — something...I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree, two hundred and seventy feet long, and thirty-two feet round at three feet above the ground. Some few... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 σελίδες
...information, nor seeds, nor specimens ever reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 710 σελίδες
...William Hooker, of a coniferous tree inhabiting that coontry : ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 616 σελίδες
...Douglas was so particularly struck with when he was in California. He says : " The great beauty of California vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which...peculiar, I was almost going to say awful appearance. I have measured specimens 270 to 300 feet high, and 32 feet round, three feet from the ground." There... | |
 | 1854 - 850 σελίδες
...ever reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Tajcodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet... | |
 | 1854 - 652 σελίδες
...inhabiting that country : ' But the great beauty of Californien vege tation is a species of Tajcodiimt, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet hing and 32 feet... | |
 | 1859 - 574 σελίδες
...Mammoth-tree; but this supposition has not been verified. Douglas, in saying, " The great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...awful, appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe," evidently alludes to rather a common plant, such as the Redwood ( Taxodium,... | |
 | 1860 - 390 σελίδες
...supposed to indicate that he saw the Wellingtonia. " The great beauty of Californian vegetation," he says, "is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains...awful — appearance, something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe." This of course refers to a tree so common as to give a tone to the general... | |
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But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearance — something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. 
