| 1792 - 640 Seiten
...oaks of Britain. On this continent, this very nfeful and valuable timber attains its higheft (late of perfection in about fifty or fixty years : the...advances by flow degrees to maturity. I have heard it afTerted, by perfons of undoubted know4 * Notwithftanding the climate of North America is lefs favourable... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1792 - 612 Seiten
...Britain. On this continent, this very ufeful and valuable timber attains its highrft ftate of perfcñion in about fifty or fixty years : the natural confequence...time, in any degree equal to that which advances by How degrees to maturity. I have heard it aflêrted, by perfons of undoubted know* * Notwithftanding... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1792 - 608 Seiten
...of the oaks of Britain. On the American continent, this fpecies of timber attains its higheft (late of perfection in about fifty or fixty years. The natural...that' being of a light and porous quality, it will not refill the depredation* of time, in any degree equal to chat which advances by flow degrees to maturity.... | |
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