| 单词 | cultivated land |
| 例句 | Beyond this lay the fields, the clear cultivated land bordered by the forest. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Shasta trotted back through the Tombs—they looked quite ordinary now and he wondered how he could ever have been afraid of them—and down into the cultivated land by the river's side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z There are occasional glimpses of the city of Granada, but the most lasting impression is of the interplay among cultivated lands, planted with different crops and trees, and wild, untamable ravines and mountains. Museum and Gallery Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:18:19Z The settled and cultivated land seen in the “east” half of his Oxbow painting doesn’t seem terribly ominous by contemporary standards. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Only 6% of Africa's cultivated land is irrigated, limiting the volume of crops that can be grown out of season, but increased access to irrigation systems stands to increase food productivity by up to 50%. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z Chefs are embracing the state’s role in agriculture, featuring products grown on the nearly 15 million acres of cultivated land in the state. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Indianapolis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z During the trek, we passed through cultivated land, rain forest, heath, moorland and alpine desert before an arctic summit. A father-son duo hit their peak — at Mount Kilimanjaro 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The spring bubbles up under a gnarly willow trunk before joining the River Kennet – a much-needed wildlife corridor meandering through otherwise cultivated land. Stone circles, silence and sanctuary: finding yourself on an Avebury pilgrimage 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. Seeds of Native Knowledge Grow in North Carolina 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Population growth was also not accompanied by an increase in cultivated land sufficient to support the added numbers of people, and in many regions, farmers found themselves tilling smaller fields as the generations passed. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Cuitino normally has a policy of not walking on cultivated land, but everything is so dry now that there is absolutely nothing to damage — even weeds aren’t growing. Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The chosen site "was in an uninhabited jungle, seven miles from the nearest point of a cart-road, 20 miles from the nearest cultivated land", he writes. John Pennycuick: The British-era colonel revered in Tamil Nadu 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In the countryside, landlords owned most of the cultivated land, and sought to increase their profits by evicting tenants, consolidating plots, adopting new crops and machinery, and converting fields to pasture. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Some 40% of the state’s industrially cultivated land is covered in the blue agave used to make tequila. Tequila byproduct spill fouls Mexican reservoir, kills fish 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Pollinator-friendly sites would have two-thirds more carbon storage potential, nearly one-fifth less water runoff and 95% less soil erosion than traditionally cultivated land, it said. Bees, sheep, crops: Solar developers tout multiple benefits 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And predators lingering on the edge of cultivated lands are often demonized, or exterminated - witness the heated debates about allowing gray wolves on the margins of Yellowstone and the French Pyrenees. Lions kill cattle, so people kill lions. Can the cycle end? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z And predators lingering on the edge of cultivated lands are often demonized, or exterminated _ witness the heated debates about allowing gray wolves on the margins of Yellowstone and the French Pyrenees. Lions kill cattle, so people kill lions. Can the cycle end? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z And predators lingering on the edge of cultivated lands are often demonized, or exterminated — witness the heated debates about allowing gray wolves on the margins of Yellowstone and the French Pyrenees. Lions kill cattle, so people kill lions. Can the cycle end? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In Nineveh, which accounts for almost half Iraq’s cultivated land with 6 million donums devoted to grain, officials recorded 180 fires between May 18 and June 11. After years of war and drought, Iraq's bumper crop is burning 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Hokkaido accounts for a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land, producing a large share of the country’s adzuki beans, buckwheat, and potatoes, half of its milk, and all of its sugar beets. Japan’s global connectors 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps a tenth of Africa’s cultivated land is now in the hands of big business, which uses most of it for biofuels, timber and other non-food crops. Africa has plenty of land. Why is it so hard to make a living from it? 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z UNH grows tomatoes in high tunnels - greenhouse-like structures used to extend the growing season and increase crop quality and yields without increasing cultivated land area. UNH gets nearly $250K grant to help with tomato research 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Under the proposal, nations would commit to increasing the carbon in their cultivated lands by 0.4 percent per year. A secret weapon to fight climate change: dirt 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The authors said that evaluations of the climate benefits of planting trees on bare or cultivated land or in deforested areas must include remote impacts such as rainfall. Deforestation could shift monsoons, leaving India high and dry 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Where yields are low and where the cultivated land is prone to erosion, crop residues should be recycled in order to limit soil losses, retain soil moisture and enrich soil organic matter. Should Humans Eat Meat? [Excerpt] 2013-07-19T15:15:05.850Z "We've been husbanding these biomes and creating our own types of ecologies, the cultivated lands, the rangelands, we've been doing this for a very long time," Ellis argues. 3,000 Years of Abusing Earth on a Global Scale 2013-04-30T18:45:00.373Z Most climate modification enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that this would increase the quantity of cultivated land and make for fairer weather. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z In future, the pressures are likely to intensify as China seeks to feed 21% of the world's population with only 9% of its cultivated land. Eight ways China is changing your world 2012-10-15T01:38:35Z Farming use, as measured by the surface area of cultivated land on each farm, rose 18.5 percent in Spain between 1999 and 2009, according to data released last year by Spain’s national statistics institute. Economic Crisis in Spain Reignites an Old Social Conflict 2012-08-24T03:01:03Z Many remained in the settlement, others left the country for safer regions, while a few cultivated land under volunteer military guard in order to provide the settlement with vegetables. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Herlies, on the other hand, lies at the foot of a long, gradual slope of open, cultivated land. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z There was little cultivated land in the immediate neighborhood of the great woods. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z This Kingfisher was found by White at Cosquin, where it is usually met with along the acequias, or canals made for the purpose of irrigating the cultivated lands. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The Chahar Mahals, for Persia, are populous, and in some parts large villages, many of which are Armenian and Georgian, occur at frequent intervals, most of them treeless, but all surrounded by cultivated lands. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The wild flowers about Ali-kuh are in great profusion just now, the most showy being hollyhocks—white, pink, and mauve, which affect the cultivated lands. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Tilth, tilth, n. cultivation: cultivated land: the depth of soil turned up in cultivation. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The land would belong to the state,—English land to England, American land to America, and so on; that is, there would be slavery, determined by the quantity of cultivated land. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z The great level of Hatfield Chace seems to have been a spur of this, if not so, they were but separated by a narrow stretch of cultivated land from the forest itself. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z The woods swept away from it, leaving a great clearing of what was once cultivated land. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Occasionally huts and cultivated land were passed; the great proprietors usually give these runs to be cultivated as farms, or make them serve for their cattle, under their own drovers. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z In these communes there is a difference between waste and cultivated land. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Already we have shown how they could duplicate the 12,500,000 acres of irrigated and cultivated land in Japan in the drainage Basin of the Colorado River. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Higher up this river, on either bank there are many pretty towns, plentifully supplied, and owning much cultivated land and flocks. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z That employed in raising food for men and cattle regulates the rent of all other cultivated land, 64, 67. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z The sight of a meeting of fox-hunters, and of the rush of their horses across the cultivated land, filled him with wrath even then. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z After that they slid out into the sunlight where a narrow belt of cultivated land ran back on either hand. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z There is but little cultivated land beyond the town of Porac to the westward. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Where cultivated lands are now, and where suburban villas stand, there stretched, less than eighty years since, a veritable scene of desolation. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Even in the rice countries, therefore, the rent of rice lands cannot regulate the rent of the other cultivated land which can never be turned to that produce. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z It consists of a number of adjacent village sites, sometimes separated by cultivated land, and most of the inhabitants are agriculturists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z I pursued my journey, sometimes through fine woods at others through well cultivated lands and villages inhabited by Dutch families. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Those who have settled down and cultivated land have a robust and healthy appearance; but those who are nomadic, mostly suffered from skin diseases, and some were quite emaciated. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z For a time, it wound, deep with dust that clung about their feet heavy with the dew, across a belt of cultivated land where indistinct, orderly rows of coffee bushes ran back from its edge. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Cotton is raised in all counties of the state except Rabun, Towns and Fannin in the extreme north, and about one-third of the total cultivated land of the state was devoted to it in 1900-1907. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The extreme eastern corner is occupied by older Tertiary loam, which is used for making bricks, and upon this and the river-banks are the most fertile spots, woods, cultivated land, pastures, towns and villages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The scenery around us was desolate in the extreme, for no vestige of human life, no house, no hut, not even a patch of cultivated land, was anywhere to be seen around us. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z I afterwards cultivated land of this sort, and at the first breaking up had six or eight draught cattle fastened to the plough. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Besides these there are many useful, though commonplace, fur-bearing animals like mink, musquash, skunk, raccoon, opossum, hamster, rabbit, hares and moles, that thrive by depredations upon cultivated land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z We have to imagine 138 the surface of England dotted over with stretches of cultivated land, with areas of waste, moorland or woodland intervening. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The gelada inhabits the mountains of Abyssinia, where, like other baboons, it descends in droves to pillage cultivated lands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z One distinguished judge of our time, a man now of national reputation, is the grandson of a poor white who negligently cultivated land rented from a relative of my own. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Through the cultivated lands, mapped out like a painter’s palette, ran a crystal stream, from which the rice fields were watered by intersecting rivulets, looking like silver threads in a tissue. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z He was a good Spanish scholar, and an excellent accountant, fond of gardening, and was much occupied at the time with the cultivated land there, to which I have before alluded. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z So terrible was the ravage that in a great many localities, the same amount of population, cattle, acres of cultivated land and general prosperity, was not restored until the year 1848, two centuries afterwards! A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z You must be six or seven hundred feet above the river bed, and can view its sinuous course to the sea, through the rich cultivated lands below, all bathed in the brilliant sunshine. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The width of the area of cultivated land on each bank of the river in Egypt is never more than eight or nine p. 166miles. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Prof. Lowell holds that there are no large bodies of water on the planet; that the so-called seas are really cultivated land. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z Every here and there "chacras," or farms, each surrounded by more or less cultivated land. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z Along with the libations all the first-fruits of the cultivated land were offered to the gods. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z To have the cultivated land well fenced, and the remainder left out for grazing. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z We are now nearly out of the cultivated land, as we see the gigantic fields of lava on every side; where it can all have come from is a mystery. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z It has taken not a little agitation and popular pressure to enforce the truth that cultivated land is also of use. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z Out of some 3,000,000 acres of cultivated land, about two-thirds are under constant irrigation and the remaining third under partial irrigation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Like his symbol, the jackal, he watched over the tombs, more especially in “the mountain” far away from the cultivated land. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Now the west wind brought the faint scent of the cultivated land to his sensitive nostrils, and his camel lifted its head to snuff at the breeze. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Whenever the contour of the land permitted, we angled, being careful to avoid the patches of cultivated land. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z On his way he came upon great cities, upon admirably cultivated lands, upon a complete social and military organization. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z The value of cultivated land has been everywhere increased by the discoveries of agricultural chemistry. The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z The most deadly still frequent the desert; it is only in the cultivated land that they are comparatively rare. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The floods have damaged about 14 percent of Pakistan's cultivated land, according to the United Nation food agency, and the cost in crop damages is believed to be almost $3 billion. Senator Kerry warns of instability if Pakistan unaided 2010-08-30T06:54:00Z Under a shared-benefits deal on cultivated land, where the yield gap is large, food production of 100 tonnes is boosted to 500 tonnes with foreign investments in agricultural technology. The land rush doesn't have to end in a poor deal for Africans 2010-08-16T05:59:00Z "In fact, from 2000, the problem was already seen in cotton fields, and from 2005 was seen in other cultivated land." Pest munches up China fields after GM crop sprays halt 2010-05-13T19:48:00Z It is only in such situations that cultivated lands are found, and beyond them trees are hardly to be seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" But they are so varied as to suggest a picture of ease and abundance among the orchards and rich cultivated land of Italy, instead of the free life and natural beauties of the Sicilian mountains. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil For some miles before Bagdad is reached, the river is fringed with palm groves, gardens, and cultivated land. A Kut Prisoner Everywhere we saw traces of vineyards and cultivated lands. Glories of Spain In these encampments the Russian merchants shall confide their animals to the charge of their own people, who shall take care that neither cultivated lands nor cemeteries shall be in any case injured or desecrated. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Here there were a number of extensive prospects, which, however, as there was but little cultivated land and few houses, were rather uniform. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Mr Robertson found them without education, without religion, without laws and without any system of government, but living comfortably on clearings of cultivated land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" In the immediate foreground, the course of the river was marked by green cultivated land and low woods, while away, in the distance, rose the dark mountains of Kurdistan. A Kut Prisoner It is, however, tolerant of a wide variety of habitat conditions, and may occur in river flood plains or cultivated land. Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog Prairie Mole.—The mole was rare or absent from the county when first settled, but it has gradually increased and has spread over most of the cultivated lands. The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 Here you have a number of extensive prospects, which, however, as you see but little cultivated land and few houses, is rather uniform. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact But if a land-tax be imposed on all cultivated land, however moderate that tax may be, it will be a tax on produce, and will therefore raise the price of produce. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation The country round seemed more deserted in this part of the valley and we had got away from cultivated land. A Kut Prisoner Certain tracts, for example, on the coast of Holland and of England consisted of cultivated land in the time of the Romans, which the sea, by gradual encroachments, has at length occupied. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Not only must they defend their patches of cultivated land, but, as numbers increase, must strike out for new lands. American World Policies Here there were a number of extensive prospects, which, however, as there was but little cultivated land and few houses, were rather uniform. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The rent and profits of barley land must always be nearly equal to those of other equally fertile, and equally well cultivated land. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation Its northern half produces fine coffee, beans, maize and sugar-cane; the southern half is little better than a desert, with oases of cultivated land near its few springs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The cultivated land was assigned for use to the several families, first for a limited time, later for once and all. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State We went a good distance before we again met cultivated land and then only in strips, some of which were not twenty feet wide and they were utilized every inch. Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. Then a body of them, about 7000 strong, ran at a tremendous pace along a ledge situated at the edge of the cultivated land. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars Although then the farmers, who cultivated land of this quality, would undoubtedly be injured by the fall in the exchangeable value of the commodity which they produced,—how would the country be affected? On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation For upwards of an hour they journeyed on, leaving the cultivated lands, and striking into wilder country. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising In addition to the 97,000 pure nomads, there are half a million Bedouins described as “semi-sedentaries,” i.e. tent-dwelling Arabs, usually encamped in those parts of the desert adjoining the cultivated land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" They must get food, and what was the good of having thousands of people, and acres of cultivated land in their neighbourhood, if the natives did not bring in as much as was required? The West Indies and the Spanish Main The cultivated land is a mere fringe round the edges of the forest. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Port Talbot became the centre of an ever-widening region of cultivated land, until before his death twenty-eight townships had been settled as the result of his efforts. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History The country was dangerously open, though, and there were cultivated lands she would have to pass. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Of the cultivated land, some three-fourths is held, theoretically, in life tenancy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In 1970 the government created special district councils for the preservation of cultivated land and, in May 1971, placed the councils under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Below, on the bank of a small watercourse, was a large bit of enclosed and cultivated land, and beside this a fruit orchard. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley It is the absence of artificial tracks which makes the range of nearly all dogs well broken on the moors, so much truer than that of dogs hunted on cultivated lands. The Dog Two natives were crossing the patch of cultivated land—a big man and a small one—and both were armed with guns. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising The floor on which the Danube runs is still a mass of undergrowth and weeds and grass, which marks off the cultivated land on the south, as it has been limited since men first ploughed. The Battle of Blenheim In that year state farms had about 15 percent more fixed assets per acre of cultivated land than the collective farms. Area Handbook for Bulgaria In 1968 the average size of all collective farms was reported to be about 1,400 acres of cultivated land. Area Handbook for Albania It is frequently found on the banks of the river, but above all, it is found at the foot of hills, and on all cultivated lands which have much slope. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Unknown agencies, together with civil wars and foreign invasions, have destroyed these ancient capitals and turned the neighboring highly cultivated lands into a wilderness. The Pearl of India Both sides have been guilty of laying waste vast areas of cultivated land, ruining its husbandmen, capitalists and laborers alike. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 The cultivated lands in the Ouachita and Atchafalaya valleys or basins are from five to fifteen feet below the level of the natural banks of the Mississippi. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874 Its Extent, Duration, and Effects Almost half of the cultivated land was located in hilly and mountainous zones, which are less productive than the coastal plains. Area Handbook for Albania All the first-fruits of the cultivated land were offered to the god; milk and butter and oil, dates and vegetables were given in abundance. The Christian View of the Old Testament After leaving Giarre we passed through a good deal of highly cultivated land belonging to Baron Pennisi, the largest landholder and richest man in Sicily. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions The surface of this plateau is a barren sandy tract, bordered by cultivated land on the side toward the Nile and merging on the west into the Libyan desert which stretches to the distant hills. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise A bare hill-side sloping to the sea, with here and there straggling acres of cultivated land. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea About 70 percent of the increase in cultivated land was added to arable acreage. Area Handbook for Albania It had been a long business for Sören's ancestors to work themselves up from the sea to the ownership of cultivated land; it had taken several generations to build up the farm on the Naze. Ditte: Girl Alive! The houses had been burned and the cultivated land was fast relapsing into a wilderness state. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Patches of cultivated land were filled with sugar cane, banana plants, and orange trees. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise It wound across that ugly no-man's land between the pavements and the cultivated land. The Deaves Affair Eighty-seven percent of all collective farms had less than 2,470 acres of cultivated land each, and only nine percent had more than about 6,200 acres. Area Handbook for Albania The crop of wheat is comparatively insignificant; but a large quantity of oats is grown, and a great proportion of the cultivated land is in permanent pasture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" It has never prospered; its population and area of cultivated land being smaller now than three hundred years ago. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Further on, the road left the forest and ran by open fields and hedgerows of cultivated lands. Peggy Owen and Liberty The lakes are spread out below, amongst woods, heaths, meadows, and cultivated land. A Danish Parsonage Constituting only 6 percent of the cultivated land, the private plots produced 23 percent of the total farm output. Area Handbook for Albania The portion of Thimbleby granted to this Odo comprised 250 acres of cultivated land, with 12 acres of meadow and 30 acres of underwood. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time But what always attracts attention is a peninsula of forest projecting into this sea of cultivated land. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' Sometimes the journey led them through fine woods; at others, through well cultivated lands and villages inhabited by Dutch families. Peggy Owen and Liberty All along the river a belt of cultivated land extended for some miles back from the bank. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt Behind the village, sloping upwards, was a broad stretch of cultivated land. The Island Mystery Thus determined, they took the plantation road upward, assisted by the moon which was near its full; and toilsomely attaining the limits of the cultivated land, buried themselves in the tomb of the forest. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas Around the town, grown in a few years to twenty thousand souls, stretched countless acres of fenced and cultivated land, yielding bountifully under the irrigating waters. Louisiana Lou A Western Story This moor, however, was more than commonly interesting; we could see a long way, and on every side of us were larger or smaller tracts of cultivated land. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 No one claims to buy and sell pasture land, only cultivated land, fields, gardens, and plantations, ultimately irrigated land. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Vineyards and plots of cultivated land overspread the slopes on either side of the valley. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Just as soil, moisture, and other external conditions are connected by the most gradual transitions, so likewise are the plant-communities, especially in cultivated lands. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The more nearly nations are able to obtain from their own cultivated land sufficient food stuff, the more effectively they can use their army and navy in strategic military service. Rural Problems of Today Through pretty woods and cultivated lands; beside rugged, roadside dells, we trudge along. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Ownership of cultivated land Such is an ideal sketch of the growth of land tenure. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters The Land.—The cultivated land was surrounded either by wood or by pasture and open commons. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Afterwards they came upon cultivated land lying around long, low farm-houses. The Orphans of Glen Elder Upland waters contain generally vegetable matter, while surface water from cultivated lands becomes polluted by animal manure. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) These three countries together contain 64 per cent of the 1,313.8 million acres of cultivated land of the world. The American Empire They had wives, built houses, cultivated lands, and engaged in trade. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era But what besides the rio the children never fail to talk about is a certain wooded peninsula in this sea of cultivated land. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere I had broken a further strip of virgin prairie, besides ploughing, with hired assistance, part of the already cultivated land, before the Indian summer passed. Lorimer of the Northwest The strip of cultivated land is very narrow at this part, often less than 500 yards wide. El Kab The United States alone contains 22 per cent of the total cultivated land. The American Empire The cultivated lands afford evidence of progressive improvement, and it is easy to imagine the flourishing condition to which this country might arrive with increased population. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests There are no reasons going to show that cultivated lands are unhealthy—even where they receive yearly abundant additions of manure. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene The vast tracts of cultivated land on either side of the river showed that the population was far more numerous than would have been supposed. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The cultivated land had been cleared by cutting away the underbrush and small trees, while the big ones had merely been "deadened," by girdling them near the ground. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 They were used to carry water to the cities and to irrigate the cultivated lands. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology This farm is to contain 20 acres of timber, a 30-acre apple orchard two years old, 40 acres of pasture, 96 acres of cultivated land divided into six 16-acre fields. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know They laid waste the cultivated land, cut down the fruit-trees, and used these to build a strong palisade around the entire city, with the determination that not a Platæan should escape. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In the hot season the barrier of ice gave way, and the torrent swept before it rocks, forests, houses, bridges, and cultivated land. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The villages of the natives were scattered, but those that they found had more cultivated land near by than the others, which made up for the scarcity of game. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Yet the villages lie in the midst of great circles of cultivated land, for the tillage of man is immemorial here. The Goose Man There were available at that time only rough estimates, even as to the area of cultivated land and its average rental. William Pitt and the Great War It was also found to be greater over the cultivated lands than over the lake of Geneva; at the tops of mountains than at the level of the sea; in towns than in the country. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry The cultivated lands do not supply the food needed for consumption. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Then the owner died, bankrupt, and for years it remained untenanted, the recrudescent bush slowly enveloping its once highly cultivated lands, and the deadly black snake, iguana, and 'possum harbouring among the deserted outbuildings. The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 The Rája owns the land of the State, but the people have a permanent tenant right in cultivated land. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir The cultivated land was on the south side of the road; in front of the houses, and beyond it, spread great salt-marshes, bordering the sea and haunted by innumerable game-birds. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America Twenty tons of farm-yard manure, a quantity commonly applied, and often exceeded on well cultivated land, contain a sufficiency of organic matters to yield about 2-1/2 cwt. of nitrogen. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Our only occupation was to watch the shore, and with the help of the telescope we could make out little wooden huts half hidden in the trees, amidst patches of cultivated land. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The cultivated lands of the villagers lie outside the village, and the most fertile ground is sometimes a mile or two away from the houses. Chatterbox, 1906 The intervening territory constitutes the parish of Terrebonne, with fertile, cultivated lands along the many bayous, and low swamps between. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The road which they were then following ran between cultivated lands on either140 side. Ahead of the Army Every now and then it discharges great quantities of sulphur gases; these are caught by the rain and, falling on the cultivated lands, kill pretty nearly everything touched. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania But we very soon left the cultivated land behind us, and were again in amongst the mountain gorges. A Boy's Voyage Round the World They had fenced in the most of the cultivated land, plowed over the burying ground, and destroyed a number of houses. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 An hour's ride brought us within his domain, where lofty deer-fences, blackthorn hedge-rows, well-made drives, and carefully cultivated land, formed a striking change from the wild but beautiful forest-country through which we had ridden. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Off started Orellana down the river, but no villages or cultivated lands appeared; nothing was to be seen save flooded plains and gloomy, impenetrable forests. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole In one province of Luzon the confiscated lots amounted to about one-half of all the cultivated land and one-third of the rural land-assessment in that province. The Philippine Islands Only occasionally, by the river-sides, near the station, small patches of cultivated land are to be seen; but, generally speaking, the country is barren, and will ever remain so. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Snakes do not frequent cultivated lands, so that animals are not there in danger from them. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Little villages dot the banks of these streams, and here and there are patches of cultivated land. At the Point of the Sword It frequently happens that the stream from which the water is taken so nearly dries up in the summer, when the water is most needed, that the cultivated lands suffer severely. The Western United States A Geographical Reader When locusts settle on cultivated lands, miles of crops are often ruined in a night by the foliage being consumed, and at daybreak only fields of stalks are to be seen. The Philippine Islands Now and then as we advanced we met troops of camels with their owners going north ward to the Tell, or cultivated lands, carrying with them their wives and other goods and chattels. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 The broad prairies covered with green, the wide reaches of cultivated land, rich with growing corn, wheat and oats, presented pictures of fertility that could not be excelled in any portion of the world. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Even where cultivated land, wrested from the mountain sides, is laboriously terraced, stones do not predominate. Riviera Towns Year by year the cultivated lands are being extended. The Western United States A Geographical Reader The grove was isolated, and a large patch of cultivated land stretched down to the river. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition “We shall soon get to more cultivated lands, Manuela,” said Pedro, in the Indian tongue, glancing back at Lawrence, who rode a few paces behind. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America In April and May it may be gathered, growing spontaneously about cultivated lands; and, though not so excellent as the cultivated plants, will yet be found of good quality. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Notwithstanding the improvements in agriculture and the increase in the extent of cultivated land, England ceased within the eighteenth century to be a self-supporting country in food products. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Save for isolated patches of cultivated land, the hills are bare and menacing. The Angel of Terror Groves of palms grew along the steep banks of the river; beyond were fields of grass and broad patches of cultivated land. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition I went on and on, avoiding cultivated land or any huts where I might meet with inhabitants, till the increasing darkness compelled me to stop. Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land It stood remote from the Kinsellas' homestead and the patches of cultivated land, separated from them by a rough causeway of grey boulders. Priscilla's Spies They gave up the food hunt in despair, for there was no cultivated land near, where a few turnips might have been obtained; and wandering slowly back they at last reached the road. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea Nothing of the sort; nor was there any very large tract of cultivated land contiguous to the house. The Boy Hunters On arriving at the cultivated land the same picture presented itself that he had seen near Khartoum. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition Some young trees on cultivated land will develop nuts, and a few of the older trees may do so. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 Only when the cultivated lands gave way to barren hills and faint blue mountains peeping over far horizons did he turn to the window and forget his misery and his weariness. The Blood of the Conquerors The Indian antelope or black-buck are the usual quarry, and as these frequent cultivated land, they regard country carts without suspicion. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Between the meandering stream and the cultivated land and the woods and the heather and the distant hills, there was such a variety as cannot be often gathered into the compass of one landscape. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers When he once gains the cultivated land he will turn the camel adrift and will make his way on foot to Khartoum. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition The cultivated lands of Kawelo lay alongside the much-traveled path to the beach where the people of the neighborhood resorted to bathe, to fish, and to swim in the ocean. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The idol had attendants and cultivated lands for its service. History of the Incas They send out their roots under the cultivated land and sap the moisture essential to plant growth. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 The proportion of cultivated land is high, being about 83% of the whole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" They continued the journey until morning broke, and then turned off to the left, and after miles of walking halted among some sand-hills outside the zone of cultivated land. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition These animals are very numerous about cultivated lands, and particularly destructive to wheat and barley crops, of which they lay up considerable hoards in spacious burrows. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon He ordered that they should be sown, and in this way he made a vast increase in the cultivated land, and in provision for sustaining the companies and garrisons. History of the Incas Avoiding the cultivated land surrounding the creek, the party struck up the hillside. The Stowaway Girl It consists, however, of more than a million of square miles of cultivated lands and forests, besides gold and other mines in Siberia. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers What is true of these thoroughly cultivated lands, it is practicable to attain on all soils, which, from their compact condition, are now almost denuded of vegetation in dry seasons. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health Next morning they continued their journey, avoiding as much as possible crossing tracts of cultivated land; and when forced to do so, lying down and crawling between the rows of the maize or yuccas. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public road or dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land, From trace of human foot or hand. The Dog's Book of Verse In place of the almost unbroken forest which they had beheld, in other spots at which they had landed, here was fair cultivated land. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main New and promising villages are frequently espied in the midst of the level, fertile flowery plains, varied by great patches of cultivated land. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers A stream came down from the woods, across the cultivated land around the fortified village. The Return There are not more than three or four acres of cultivated land in the whole settlement. Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland You've never seen much of the cultivated land, have you—except from a distance? The She Boss A Western Story Some of them are as high as this room in three years on cultivated land set out in rows. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 Out in the wilderness, there are great tracts of cultivated land that supply food to the planets of the Solar Alliance and her satellites. The Revolt on Venus The sky also is flecked with rounded little wind-clouds, whose undersides are alternately grey or orange as they pass over the cultivated land or desert rock, whose colour they partially reflect. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt As far as the eye could see on every side there was no trace of a human being; no house, no boat, no cultivated land. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping The country was almost all cultivated land, one vast farming industry. Letters from France The cultivated land was everywhere divided into small fields, inclosed by hedges and intersected by lanes. Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick Evergreens should be planted in cultivated land, and then they will grow surprisingly fast. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The canton of Uri has nearly 1,000 acres of cultivated lands, the distribution of which gives about a quarter of an acre to each family entitled to a share. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum In it were mirrored the trees and villages, gardens and pretty houses of a cultivated land, all reversed. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The upland around was once cultivated land, and it should be green with the weeds of two years. Letters from France The negro soon returned, and said that the cultivated land extended on both sides of the village, and there was no difficulty in crossing it. The Queen's Cup The trail of war is visible throughout the valley in burnt-up gin houses, ruined bridges, mills, and factories ... and large tracts of once cultivated land are stripped of every vestige of fencing. History of the United States The number of live stock per 1,000 acres of cultivated land in the United Kingdom and other countries is: Country. A Short History of English Agriculture Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public road or dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land; From trace of human foot or hand. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library They then pushed up a long round swelling hill, on the other side of which was a considerable stretch of cultivated land with Bryan M'Mahon's new and improved houses at the head of it. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two And now they turned away from the sea, and struck a high road which took them between upland farms and across the ridge of cultivated land to a valley full of trees. The Ship of Stars Gradually they came to look upon the sterile coast, unlike, strangely unlike though it was, to the cultivated lands they had left, as their home, at least for some years to come. Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire Half the cultivated lands, in spite of the progress of enclosure for centuries, were still farmed on the old common-field system. A Short History of English Agriculture Once off the cultivated land, we found the hill a very garden of wild blooms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 On top of all runs a second terrace, much broader than the first, and a low hedge, beyond which, out of sight, the cultivated land begins. Nicky-Nan, Reservist On Hummock Island, as well as the south side of Mindanao, were many pleasant looking spots, which appeared to be cultivated land. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island A common interest often united a good many village communities in a bond of union, and established a kind of brotherhood over extensive tracts of richly cultivated land. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official We know that by Harrison's time enclosures had affected but a small area, and the greater part of the cultivated land was in open arable fields. A Short History of English Agriculture It is the chief distributing point for a larger part of the cultivated lands of the county, and exports not only agricultural products, but also shingles. A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 The road—a passably good one—led them across a dip of cultivated land, shaped like a saddle-back, with a line of forest trees topping its farther ridge. Lady Good-for-Nothing On this coast there appeared many extensive spots of cleared, and apparently cultivated land. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island Much of the cultivation of barley, wheat, and rye, is very luxuriant, but the proportion of waste, to cultivated land is too considerable to argue either a large population or active agricultural habits. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries No doubt there was plenty of common pasture, but we cannot call this cultivated land. A Short History of English Agriculture No visible roads lead to it; no fertile and cultivated land surrounds it; no trees or parks or pleasure grounds are near it. With Rimington Laborious as this mode must be even in a free soil, it is rendered still more so in Chiloe by the myrtle roots which everywhere infest their cultivated land. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The country appeared low; but well covered with wood: We saw some straggling houses, three or four fortified towns, and near them a large quantity of cultivated land. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 It included not only the fringe of cultivated land by the sea-shore, but the western slopes of the Lebanon as well. Patriarchal Palestine With its summit as the centre, a radius of ten miles would include within the circle described but very little cultivated land; only a few poor, wild farms in some of the numerous valleys. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs The meadows, besides being divided by the hedges, kept purposely cropped low, were surrounded, like all the cultivated lands, by high and strong stockades. After London Or, Wild England The army now encamped at the commencement of the cultivated lands belonging to the Apalaches, but the Indians still continued to annoy them, by continually pouring flights of arrows into the camp. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Both cultivated land in like manner and on equal terms. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Rutherford, we have seen, mentions the existence of cultivated land in the neighbourhood of the village to which he was last conveyed. John Rutherford, the White Chief They serve their master in his house and on his cultivated lands, and may be sold. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century They are still numerous, but do not appear to do the same amount of damage as is occasionally caused by the mice, when the latter invade the cultivated lands. After London Or, Wild England As it rains almost incessantly, the cultivated lands are commonly wet the whole year. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time They reported to the master-of-camp that they had entered a narrow arm of the sea, which the land inward forms into a medium-sized lake, around which seemed to be many people and much cultivated land. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Shaurakke is one of the most delightful spots in New Zealand, and has more cultivated land about it than I saw anywhere else. John Rutherford, the White Chief This was done in the following way: Half the cultivated lands and all their produce belonged to the master. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The shores of the Ontario are very fine, rising in waving lines of hill and dale, clothed with magnificent woods, or enlivened by patches of cultivated land and pretty dwellings. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Keliiokaloa, who reigned over the coast where this memorable event took place, was a wicked prince, who delighted in wantonly felling cocoa-nut trees and laying waste cultivated lands. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands The soil is very rich, but there is little cultivated land, the mountain-sides being too steep. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Leaving behind him the fertile banks, and acres, of cultivated land, He approached the terrible Wilderness which even the natives of that part of the country regarded with superstitious horror. Mystic Christianity They are married, and serve their master, whether he be a dato or not, with half of their cultivated lands, as was agreed upon in the beginning. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The patches of cultivated land round their cottages produce, with but little labour, enough vegetables for their subsistence, and to sell, procuring clothing and such luxuries as they care for. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Padan, as we learn from the Assyrian inscriptions, originally signified as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough; then it came to denote the "cultivated land" or "acre" itself. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The principal employment of the people consists in making salt, fishing, boiling oil, and trading to the Eboe country, for not a particle of cultivated land was to be seen. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa The southern or Severn side presents to the view well cultivated lands, gently rising from the shore. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 Before that time all the forests will have been turned into cultivated land. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes From this circumstance, however, one good resulted; precautions against a similar accident were immediately taken, by clearing the timber for a certain distance round the cultivated land. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. It lay apart from the cultivated lands of the Egyptian peasantry, it adjoined the desert which led to Asia, and it was near the Hyksos capital of Zoan. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The travellers soon passed the cultivated lands of Egypt, and entered on an expanse of sandy waste, such as the bottom of the ocean might exhibit, if the waters were to retire. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa On the western side of Mount Astrolabe, for instance, numerous villages and patches of cultivated land were seen from the Bramble. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 Most of the cultivated land was high and dry and needed no artificial drainage. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 He walked with us round his garden, and to a point finely overlooking the country below, charmingly varied by cultivated land, meadow and woodland. What I Remember, Volume 2 His sons Esau and Jacob shared the desert and the cultivated land between them. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations They were surrounded by more cultivated land than they had seen for the previous fortnight; the crops consisting of yams, bananas, plantains, indian corn, &c. &c., not having seen so much since they left Kacunda. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa On leaving Siju you ride south for three days, constantly falling in with fine towns and villages and hamlets and farms, with their cultivated lands. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 From their flocks and herds or from their cultivated land they fed themselves and the cities. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History Then we galloped past cultivated land, where clustered spears of Indian corn sprouted above the reddish golden soil, and sheep fed in stony pastures. The Maid-At-Arms These royal tombs were at a distance from the cultivated land, hidden in valleys in the desert. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality The neighbors said he never worked like the rest of them, and that his patch of cultivated land was altogether too small to support his family, a wife and two daughters, grown. Death Valley in '49 Part of the rancher's cultivated land, to the extent of several acres, was the level top of this strange bridge. Tales of lonely trails This would bring cultivated land up to my south line, and I afterward found out, take the whole half of the section into the new farms. Vandemark's Folly Now we have entered the fertile plains of North California, and run through cultivated lands, till we reach Sacramento, the capital of the State. A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California At our feet, looking toward Metz, an apron of cultivated land swept down for a mile or more to a forest edge. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form The vale is triangular, its greatest breadth being about five miles; its whole extent is covered with a rich turf, intermingled by just sufficient cultivated land as to supply the inhabitants with grain. A Peep into Toorkisthhan Here and there were squares of cultivated land that looked like door-mats flung out upon the hillsides. Tommy and Grizel Every year we broke some prairie, and our cultivated land increased. Vandemark's Folly We are now passing through cultivated lands, farms, and estates, and these continue right on to New York. A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California Competition and Radical agitation have brought estates down more than people realise, and land in Australia and New Zealand is now worth almost as much per acre as cultivated lands in England. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life The distance was invisible, but gleams now and again revealed, through the drifts of rain, wide stretches of cultivated land lying below us, and a ragged forest of pines piercing the mist above. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil The elaborately cultivated lands around them were left fallow till they were good for nothing but the pasturage which was all that the nomad required. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Having several villages in sight, as the sun rose, with cultivated land, flocks, trees, and water, we arrived at the foot of the mountain, which forms the northern boundary of the plain of Merdusht. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Still west of this land was a well-wooded pasture, separated from the cultivated lands by a good board fence. Out of Doors—California and Oregon The cultivated land at least is usually assigned, temporarily or inalienably, as property to specific individuals, and the individuals are grouped in generally monogamic families of which the father is the head. An Englishman Looks at the World The road lay entirely through cultivated land, and had no peculiar features. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada On the side of the promontory already mentioned, a rough bit of ancient forest, steep and craggy, stretches down to the strip of cultivated land beside the river. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine A small ledge or terrace of cultivated land here hung in air,—below it, a precipice of two hundred feet down into the Gorge of Sorrento. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Far and wide, cultivated land alternates with heaths and sandy moors, and the miserable villages or small towns which lie on the road, excite no desire to delay the journey even for a moment. A Woman's Journey Round the World The small quantity of cultivated land in the whole line of valley, does not so much depend on inequalities of level, and consequent unfitness for irrigation, as on the small supply of water. The Voyage of the Beagle There was plenty of cultivated land; and plenty of waste, waiting to reward the labourer. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada The cultivated land by the river was only a narrow strip, and the crops were chiefly maize and buckwheat. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine At full speed Linda put the Cat through the stream and out of the canyon until she reached cultivated land, where she found a man who would gather other men and start to the rescue. Her Father's Daughter The road led through delightful groves of palm-trees and richly cultivated land. A Woman's Journey Round the World About 40% of the total cultivated land is used to grow peanuts, an important export crop. The 1993 CIA World Factbook We mounted without a word and filed through a grove of trees to where a broken paling marked the beginning of cultivated land. Greenmantle But as I ascended the valley the breadth of cultivated land grew narrower, and the habitations fewer. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine About 40% of the total cultivated land is used to grow peanuts, an important export crop. The 1992 CIA World Factbook There was very little grazing to be had in the hills, so they rode quickly past them into the cultivated land. Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Despite significant expansion in other sectors over the past decade, sugarcane remains dominant and is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area, accounting for 40% of export earnings. The 1990 CIA World Factbook Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. Les Misérables Attacking the fort, they murdered Père Gabriel, disinterred the dead, and wasted the cultivated land of the French residents. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 It might all be converted into most productive cultivated land at a later date; but, at the outset, soil that was ready for use was naturally to be preferred. Freeland A Social Anticipation The sky was milk—the desert, honey —far off Cairo with its crowned citadel, pale opal veined with light, and faintly streaked with misty greens and purples; the cultivated land a deep indigo sea. It Happened in Egypt The house, white-painted, stood in the midst of cultivated land which he would have to cross to reach it. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Most of the houses and cultivated land of the Santa Clara settlement had disappeared. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert The cultivated land was divided into three large fields, in which the rotation of crops was strictly enforced, each field lying fallow once in three years. English Villages The colours of the rock, under the shifting clouds, are very beautiful, and golden, bright and velvety the little belts and platforms of cultivated land to be counted between base and peak. The Roof of France It was a nice thought, and makes the transition from the bleak bog to the cultivated land more easy and graceful. Lord Kilgobbin Near the uneven road among the hills a small field of stony ground lay between woods and cultivated land. Tales from Bohemia Leaving the road, he led the way with a long, swinging stride across the cultivated land. True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence Quitting a stretch of pinewood we traverse flat cultivated land, gradually winding up towards a long straggling village surmounted by a lofty church tower of grey stone. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Birds and beasts, and even vegetation, are found in an intermediate stage between the wholly artificial life on cultivated land and the natural life in true forest districts like the New Forest or Exmoor. The Naturalist on the Thames The Island of St. Bartholomew is a mountainous rock, three or four miles in diameter, with here and there a few patches of verdure, but destitute of trees or cultivated lands. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Most of the yellow day lilies are past, but the tawny one is at its best; they are all hardy, and seem to thrive alike in wild or cultivated land. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 But upon this journey he found himself, one evening after sunset, in a region where it seemed possible to obtain neither fare nor lodging of any sort—out of sight of cultivated land. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series At the Minnetaree village a similar inclosure may now be seen by the side of the village surrounding their cultivated land, consisting partly of hedge and partly of stakes, the open prairie stretching out beyond. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines We saw, as we run along shore, several Villages, cultivated lands, and some of the Natives. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World There are no cultivated lands to speak of within twenty miles, in some directions within fifty miles. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished It is by far the most extensive tract of cultivated land that we have seen in the island, and is improved to its utmost capacity. Journal of an African Cruiser For we have neither cultivated lands, nor mines, nor harbors, which can induce them to preserve us for our labors. The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus "Away with you!" cried the stern parent, and we began the long march, climbing uphill in the blazing sunshine; winding, later on, through shady chestnut woods and across broad tracts of cultivated land. Old Calabria The canal of Guines would be very useful for the transport of agricultural productions by steam-boats,* because its course would be in proximity with the best cultivated lands. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I shall only observe in general, that the complaints of the increasing sterility of cultivated land become more frequent between the tropics, in proportion as they are near the period of their first breaking-up. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Down again through cultivated lands, corn and clover, flax and beet, and all the various crops with which the industrious German yeoman ekes out his little patch of soil. Two Years Ago, Volume II. The environs of the city are well populated, and, as we rode out, en route for Shiráz, we passed through a good deal of cultivated land. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán Three more hours or thereabouts will take you to Serra San Bruno along the backbone of southern Italy, through cultivated lands and pasture and lonely stretches of bracken, once covered by woodlands. Old Calabria And it is still more noticeable because of the amount of cultivated land that you will find there; and also because the people have built themselves great and beautiful houses. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils A narrow zone of cultivated land would have crossed the vast steppes that separate the forests of Guiana from the Andes of New Grenada. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 May they bring the rain, the joy of the year, on the cultivated land and the desert during my time. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature In districts where cultivated land is scarce and population scattered, it is almost impossible to enjoy pig-sticking. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter In proof, they say that if you dig near Tarsia below the present river-level, you will pass through beds of silt and ooze to traces of old walls and cultivated land. Old Calabria At first, the newly cultivated land yielded seventy for one, but has since been reduced to thirty or forty, for want of good husbandry. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time On the opposite shore cultivated lands extended from the limit of one's vision down almost to the water. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front The Australian Government, for example, in order to induce farmers to extend the area of cultivation, has guaranteed "a fixed minimum price of 4s." for all wheat grown on the newly cultivated land. The War and Democracy To the east of this, and parallel to the cultivated land, there are wild and huge mountains and moors, which are inhabited by the Fins. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Not long ago I was cutting away a thicket of wild spiraea which was crowding in upon the cultivated land. Great Possessions The Durance, swollen to enormous proportions and washing the two hillsides, passed between dark masses of cultivated land, and was the sole thing displaying life in the inanimate space bounded by the horizon. International Short Stories: French Licenses are not needed for the purpose of obtaining food, nor for shooting game damaging cultivated land, nor for shooting apes, beasts of prey, wild boars, reptiles, and all birds except ostriches and cranes. American Big Game in Its Haunts There were no cultivated lands hereabouts, and I was told that a great part of Morocco presents this desolate aspect. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. It was the way down to a ford leading to a cottage by courtesy called a farm, though the cultivated land was scarcely an acre in extent, reclaimed from the river-bed. The Velvet Glove In the Russian villages to-day the homesteads are private property, while the cultivated land is owned in common. American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History The whole of the Turkish system covering the river, trenches well concealed in the river banks and in patches of cultivated land, were rushed in silence and captured. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine We landed at some of the islands, most of which have some cultivated land. Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission We found a new plantation made by the Indians, that is to say, some tracts of cultivated land, some animals and some frames of houses. Memoir of Fr. Vincent De Paul; religious of La Trappe His house was humble in outward appearance, but contained every comfort, and was surrounded by orchard and garden, and many acres of cultivated land. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada This was done to compel the people to pay for the wild as well as the cultivated lands. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland We rode out gaily this August afternoon, along the Germantown road, admiring the fine farms, and the forests still left among the cultivated lands. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker The isolated situation of the huts dispersed through the forest indicates to the traveller the fecundity of nature, where a small spot of cultivated land suffices for the wants of several families. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The huts of negro slaves were near the sugar mills, without regard to order, but in clusters of banana, avocado-pear, limes and oranges, and with the cultivated land round their huts made an effective picture. No Defense, Complete Without the exercise of keen intelligence all the snakes of the cultivated lands of the world long ago would have been exterminated. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Once past that point, he would find the road quite open and running almost straight, in the midst of arid and only partially cultivated land. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel And once, on the edge of cultivated land, a partridge burst from the heather at her very feet—a "Frenchman" with his red legs and gay feathers brilliant in the sun. In Secret Near Caravalleda, the cultivated lands enlarge; we find hills with gentle declivities, and the vegetation rises to a great height. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 For the rest our position was good, being on high desert beyond the cultivated land which bordered the eastern bank. The Ancient Allan The cultivated land terminated only where the village began. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel This is just before passing Funkai where we are following the course of a stream some sixty feet wide with but little cultivated land in small areas. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Besides, this grass is generally counted a nuisance, because it will get into all the good cultivated land and it is almost impossible of eradication. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered They divide its conquests like arms of the sea difficult to be passed, and neighbouring states are often connected with each other only by slips of cultivated land. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 But in 1705 two parish priests maintained that they should be levied also on hemp, flax, tobacco, pumpkins, hay—on all that is grown on cultivated land. The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 He became the champion of the peasantry against the freebooters, of the cultivated land against the waste; social respect and predominance were his rewards. Prolegomena This is an average of 3.4 people to the acre of cultivated land, each farmer's household tilling an average of 2.6 acres. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan The deacon takes Mr. Scranton by the arm, pointing over the broad expanse of cultivated land, bending under the harvest. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter On a morgen of cultivated land, in an average of 16 years, in plants containing the same mineral elements, silex, lime, and potash, 857 carbon, 26.8 nitrogen. Familiar Letters on Chemistry The Finlanders inhabit these moors, and the cultivated land is broadest to the eastward; and, altogether, the more northward it lies, the more narrow it is. Discovery of Muscovy Instead of cultivated lands, and a life of peaceful occupations and orderly habits, there came a day when every where might was right, and men, big and powerful as they were, became physically worn out. Atlantis : the antediluvian world The productive cultivated lands lie chiefly along the rivers and canals or other water courses, where there is better drainage as well as water for irrigation. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Ruined cities, stopt watercourses, cultivated land falling back into marsh and desert, a soil too often saturated with human corpses—offered all the elements for pestilence. Roman and the Teuton It was broad daylight now, and the flat, carefully cultivated land was green and fresh. The Vultures Alternately he traded in furs, worked in a mine, and cultivated lands. File No. 113 Sandy belts are common on parts of the prairie, and when they fringe cultivated land are something of a danger in a dry season, because the loose sand travels far before the wind. The Girl from Keller's The amount of this compost is sufficient to apply 1.78 tons per acre of cultivated land of the southern three main islands. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan In about twenty minutes we emerged from the high grass upon a great extent of highly cultivated land, where the sandy loam had been reduced to the fine surface of a well-kept garden. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 According to this official statistical representation the cultivated land would be in proportion to the population about five donums, or two and a half acres, per individual. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Through what fertile stretches of well cultivated land it leads you! See America First Began my survey of the cultivated land belonging to the public. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Less than one-half of this area is cultivated land yet it is at the present time supporting a population exceeding 38,000,000 of people. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan "O yes," answered the Wazir, "there is King Baal-Beg, whose troops fill the deserts and the cultivated lands, the plains and the valleys." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 For Egypt is, after all, mainly a great river with strips on each side of cultivated land, flat, green, not very varied. The Spell of Egypt The chief cultivation given to Igorot crops is bestowed on rice, though all cultivated lands are remarkably free from weeds. The Bontoc Igorot Next morning walked round the whole of the cleared and cultivated land, with the Rev. Mr. Johnson, who is the best farmer in the country. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson The dense forests and rough plains, which still form the boundaries of the cultivated land, only add to the beauty. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Thus in the regions of eternal shade Conferr'd the mournful phantoms of the dead; While from the town, Ulysses and his band Pass'd to Laertes' cultivated land. The Odyssey After breakfast we took a walk and inspected the Amahagger herds, and also their cultivated lands. She When the troops reached the cultivated lands about the junction of the Maumee and Auglaize rivers, they found only deserted huts and great fields of corn, from which they joyfully replenished their diminished stores. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond He estimates the quantity of cleared and cultivated land at 200 acres. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson The trail of war is visible throughout the valley in burnt-up gin-houses, ruined bridges, mills, and factories... and in large tracts of once cultivated land stripped of every vestige of fencing. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states First the gardens, then the palm-groves, then the cultivated land, then the broad and gentle Nile and, far away, the desert. Moon of Israel After running for some miles through the cultivated land the road entered the forest. The Ivory Child The three regions were the dry strip along the coast, the fertile and cultivated land about the spurs of the Cordilleras, and the inland mountain regions, inhabited by the wildest races. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 I quite agree to what you say about our agrarian plants being accustomed to cultivated land, and so no fair test. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Towards this town Kepher, who marched at a distance in front, guided them till they reached a clump of trees on the outskirts of the cultivated land. Morning Star We drove on a while in silence, following a track which ran between the cultivated land and the desert. Moon of Israel The route lay across New Jersey, that "garden of America" which English travelers spoke of as resembling their own highly cultivated land. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence Cattle generally stray and damage cultivated land when they get upon it. The Common Law As civilization, with people, villages, towns, cultivated lands, advanced westward, still further west pushed the trapper. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it The country is being settled very fast, and there is somewhat of a stir to obtain cultivated lands. Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona To the right the country was more or less mountainous; that is, solitary hills stood up from its level, with stretches of cultivated land between, amongst which we could see groups of dome-shaped huts. King Solomon's Mines When the country is freed from danger of flood, the Baghdad Railway could be run through the cultivated land instead of through the eastern desert; see Willcocks, The Near East, Oct. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Of course, we cannot settle in lands already occupied by the Vril-ya; and if we take the cultivated lands of the other races of Ana, we must utterly destroy the previous inhabitants. The Coming Race According to Mr. Woodruff, cultivated land will produce 1600 times as much food as hunting land. A Collection of Stories There is a good deal of cultivated land, and scattered farm-houses appear. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness The wedge of cultivated land ruined east of the volcano extended at least ten miles, with a width of twenty or thirty miles. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire A quarter of a mile intervened between the forest and the city wall—a quarter of a mile of cultivated land unrelieved by a single tree. Tarzan the Untamed Nothing could have seemed wilder than this apparently impenetrable and yet we had ridden but a short distance before we realized that we were in fact passing through cultivated land. The Land of Footprints The rock-hewn roads and cultivated land certainly gave the settlement an old-established appearance, which was not surprising seeing that it has been inhabited for more than a hundred years. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Broad patches of cultivated land intervened, disclosing hill-sides covered with the yellow maize and the potato, or checkered, in the lower levels, with blooming plantations of cacao. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas Those towns escaped, but thousands of acres of fertile cultivated land, with farm houses and stock, were destroyed. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire What used to be worth a shekel of silver is now worth three shekels of gold, while the cultivated lands which were abandoned during the war bring in nothing! Salammbo Here it should be added that the sportsman, who finds himself on cultivated lands, should rigidly keep his hands off the fruits of the season, and leave springs and streams alone. The Sportsman Finally, lack of provisions would sooner or later lead them to devastate the surrounding country like grasshoppers, and the rich trembled for their fine country-houses, their vineyards and their cultivated lands. Salammbo There is a good deal to be said for taking your hounds frequently into the mountains; not so much for taking them on to cultivated land. The Sportsman To find the trail you must work the dogs downwards through the cultivated lands, beginning at the top. The Sportsman These old pirates had lands under tillage, these money-grubbers would fit out ships, these proprietors of cultivated lands supported slaves who followed trades. Salammbo |
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