 | 1866 - 694 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... | |
 | William Fraser - 1873 - 406 Seiten
...bronze period, there were no beech trees, or, at most, but a few stragglers, — the country being covered with oak. In the age of stone, again, the...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years : and there is nothing in the observed rate of growth of peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1873 - 738 Seiten
...the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in these old pine forests. How many generations of each species...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... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1874 - 636 Seiten
...the age of stone, again, the Scotch fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in these old pine forests. How many generations of each species...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years ; and there is nothing in the obgerved rate of the growth of peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | William Fraser - 1875 - 452 Seiten
...Charles Lyell, pp. 9, 372. fir prevailed, and already there were human inhabitants in those old pirie forests. How many generations of each species of tree...other good authorities, have amounted to at least four thousand years : and there is nothing in the observed rate of growth of peat opposed to the conclusion... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1883 - 458 Seiten
...human inhabitants in those old pineforests. How many generations of each species of tree nourished in succession before the pine was supplanted by the...other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years: and there is nothing in the observed rate of growth of peat opposed to the conclusion,... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - 1886 - 394 Seiten
...the time of the Romans the Danish isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. . . . Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no...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... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - 1886 - 396 Seiten
...human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations of each species of tree nourished in succession before the pine was supplanted by the...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... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 2005 - 433 Seiten
...preserved in the Danish peat cannot be estimated in centuries with any approach to accuracy. In the Irst place, in going back to the bronze age, we already...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... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1874 - 552 Seiten
...of Man relates to peat. A strong desire to ensure attention to it, leads us to cite it again : — "The minimum of time required for the formation of so much peat [from ten to thirty feet] must, according to the estimate of Steenstrup and other good authorities,... | |
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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... 
