 ... fir trees to be laid across to give it firmness. The villages and hamlets stand on spots of fertile ground, scattered like islands among the sands. The appearance of a corn-field on each side of the road, fenced by green hedges, a clump of trees at...  Galignani's Traveller's Guide Through France - Page 443by William Coxe - 1819Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 482 pages
...sand, unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of the fir-trees to be laid across, to give it firmness. The villages...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of a rustic church tapering from among* them, gave notice of our approach to an inhabited... | |
 | 1817 - 520 pages
...present course, and along the hiph road to Dax. and deep as to require the trunks of the fir-trees to be laid across to give it firmness. The villages...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of a rustic church tapering from among them, gave notice of our approach to an inhabited... | |
 | 1817 - 526 pages
...except where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of the fir trees to be laid across tn give it firmness. The villages and hamlets stand on...like islands among the sands. The appearance of a corn field on each side of the road, fenced by green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance,... | |
 | 1821 - 780 pages
...sand, unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to require the truflks of the fir-tree* to be laid across, to give it firmness. The villages...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of a rustic church tapering Iroin among them, gave notice of our approach to an inhabited... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...through the sand, unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of fir trees to be laid across to give it firmness. The...fertile ground, scattered like islands among the sands. Mr. Maynard, a gentleman attached to a division of the British army, which marched through this district,... | |
 | 1825 - 266 pages
...sand, unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of the fir-trees to be laid across to give it firmness, the villages...fertile ground, scattered like islands among the sands. Mr. Maynard, a gentleman attached to a division of the British army which marched through this district... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...eittf where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of fir trees to be laid across to giveit firmness. The villages and hamlets stand on spots...scattered like islands among the sands. The appearance ot a cornfield on each side oí the road, fenced by gr«n hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...in the turpentine. The road is through the sand, unaltered by art. except where it is so loose ami deep as to require the trunks of the fir trees to...the sands. The appearance of a corn-field on each »idc of the road, fenced by green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pages
...unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to icquire the trunks of fir-trees lo bo laid across to give it firmness The villages and hamlets...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of a rustic church tapering from among them, gives notice of the approach to an inhabited... | |
 | 1844 - 398 pages
...through the sand, unaltered by art, except where it is so loose and deep as to require the trunks of fir trees to be laid across to give it firmness. The...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the spire of a rustic church tapering from among them, gives notice of the approach to an inhabited... | |
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