 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 730 Seiten
...there were human inhabitants in these old pine forests. How many generations of each species of trees flourished in succession before the pine was supplanted...of time required for the formation of so much peat, according to the estimate of Steenstrup and other good authorities, has amounted to at least 4000 years... | |
 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, the. Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years ; and there is nothing in the observed rate of the growth of peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 558 Seiten
...country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p. 9), and already there were human inhabitants in those...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years; and there is nothing in the observed rate of the growth of peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 Seiten
...country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p. 9), and already there were human inhabitants in those...be but vaguely conjectured, but the minimum of time recpired for the formation of so much peat must, acCHAP. II. ANCIENT SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS. 17 cording... | |
 | 1863 - 506 Seiten
...oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants iu those old pine forests. How many generations of •each...the minimum of time required for the formation of ю much peat must, according to the estimate of Steenstrnp and other good authorities, have amounted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1863 - 736 Seiten
...being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there wore human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many...the pine was supplanted by the oak, and the oak by tho beech, can be but vaguely conjectured, but the minimum of tiino required for the formation of so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 Seiten
...age of stone, tho Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in those old pino forests. How many generations of each species of tree...the pine was supplanted by the oak, and the oak by tho beech, can be but vaguely conjectured, but tho minimum of time required for the formation of so... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 Seiten
...begins with " Danish peat and shell mounds, and Swiss lake-dwellings." Of the first of these he says, " The minimum, of time required for the formation of...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years." But he adds, " There is nothing in the observed rate of the growth of peat opposed to... | |
 | Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 112 Seiten
...confirmation. The evidence of the Danish peat and shell mounds, is summed up in the following words : — " How many generations of each species of tree flourished...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years ; and there is nothing in the observed rate of tho growth of the peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 448 Seiten
...forests. How many generations of each species of trees flourished in succession before the pine wits supplanted' by the oak, and the oak by the beech,...the minimum of time required for the formation of BO much peat, according to the estimate of Steenstrup and other good authorities, has amounted to at... | |
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Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered... 
