 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 730 Seiten
...Romans the Danish islands were covered as now with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world docs this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark,...bronze period there were no beech trees, or, at most, a few stragglers, the country being covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 558 Seiten
...collecting their bones in funeral urns. No traces of grain of any sort have hitherto been discovered, nor any other indication that the ancient people had...In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p. 9), and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations... | |
 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...They had no agriculture, but were not ignorant of fire, employing for fuel wood and sea-wrack : — ' What may be the antiquity of the earliest human remains...being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, the. Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 576 Seiten
...tradition. In the time of the Eomans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech foresta. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more...In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p. 9), and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations... | |
 | 1863 - 506 Seiten
...forests of Denmark are chiefly composed. — In the time of the Romans "—writes Sir Charles Lyell— " the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent...period there were no beech trees, or at most but a lew stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1863 - 578 Seiten
...Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the oha-= racter of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze...In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p. 9), and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 Seiten
...Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of tho forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period...being then covered with oak. In the age of stone, tho Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in those old pino forests. How many... | |
 | 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
...little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronzo period there were no beech trees, or at most but a...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... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 622 Seiten
...commit himself to such definite chronological calculations. ' What may be the antiquity,' he writes, ' of the earliest human remains preserved in the Danish...or, at most, but a few stragglers, the country being covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 448 Seiten
...estimated, even in centuries, with any approach to accuracy. In the time of the Romans the Danish islands were covered as now with magnificent beech forests....bronze period there were no beech trees, or, at most, a few stragglers, the country being covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed,... | |
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In the time of the Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying... 
