 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 764 Seiten
...not 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... | |
 | Ernest Henry Wilson - 1920 - 354 Seiten
...more luxuriously than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing toward 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 with Oak. The Scots Pine... | |
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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... 
