Historic Notes on the NorthwestH.H. Hill and Company, 1879 - 304 էջ |
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... fires - Aboriginal names of the prairies , and the Indians who lived exclusively upon them .... CHAPTER VI . 21 26 29 Early French discoveries - Jaques Cartier ascends the St. Lawrence in 1535- Samuel Champlain founds Quebec in 1608 ...
... fires - Aboriginal names of the prairies , and the Indians who lived exclusively upon them .... CHAPTER VI . 21 26 29 Early French discoveries - Jaques Cartier ascends the St. Lawrence in 1535- Samuel Champlain founds Quebec in 1608 ...
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... fire . The prairies are covered with grass , and were probably occasioned by the ravages of fire ; because wherever copses of trees were found on them , the grounds about them are low and too moist to admit the fire to pass over it ...
... fire . The prairies are covered with grass , and were probably occasioned by the ravages of fire ; because wherever copses of trees were found on them , the grounds about them are low and too moist to admit the fire to pass over it ...
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... fire is kept out . This is likewise the reason the prairies are generally the most fertile soil . The vegeta- tion in them was the strongest and the fires there burnt with the most power . The timber was destroyed more rapidly in the ...
... fire is kept out . This is likewise the reason the prairies are generally the most fertile soil . The vegeta- tion in them was the strongest and the fires there burnt with the most power . The timber was destroyed more rapidly in the ...
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... fire . Whatever may have been the condition of the ground when the prairie lands first emerged from the waters , or the chemical changes they may have since under- gone , how many years the process of vegetable growth and decay may have ...
... fire . Whatever may have been the condition of the ground when the prairie lands first emerged from the waters , or the chemical changes they may have since under- gone , how many years the process of vegetable growth and decay may have ...
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... fire cannot pass are only exposed to one - half the fires to which they would be exposed but for such protection . This tends to show , at least , that if but one - half the fires that have occurred had been kindled , the arboraceous ...
... fire cannot pass are only exposed to one - half the fires to which they would be exposed but for such protection . This tends to show , at least , that if but one - half the fires that have occurred had been kindled , the arboraceous ...
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