 ... 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
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...through the snnd, 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....green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the •pire of a ruslic church tapering from among them, gives notice of the approach to an inhabited... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 pages
...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 villages...green hedges, a clump of trees at a little distance, and the •pire of a ruslic church tapering from among them, gives notice of the approach to an inhabited... | |
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