...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...the natural fertility and beauty of the provinces which made up the Roman Empire, — a region wliich shows the most melancholy proofs of havoc and waste....indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are-washed away ; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because the cisterns...

...surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs...the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of Alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are washed...

...vegetable earth, accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, the soil of Alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland f1elds, are washed away ; meadows, once fertilized by irrigation, are waste and unproductive, because...

...surrendered to hopeless desolation, or, at least, greatly reduced, both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs...vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees by the decsiy of leaves and fallen trunks; the soil of the alpine pastures, which skirted and indented the...

...surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs...and fallen trunks, the soil of the Alpine pastures that skirted and indented the woods, and the mould of the upland fields, are washed away ; meadows,...

...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...or, at least, greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared, the vegetable earth accumulated beneath the trees, by the decay of leaves and fallen trunks, is washed away ; meadows, once fertilised by irrigation, are unproductive, because the cisterns, reservoirs,...

...surrendered to hopeless desolation, or at least, greatly reduced, both in productiveness and population. Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs...pastures, which skirted and indented the woods, and the mold of the upland fields are washed away; meadows once productive, fertilized by irrigation, are waste...

...surrendered to hopeless desolalation, or at least greatly reduced in both productiveness and population. Yast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges;...accumulated beneath the trees by the decay of leaves and of fallen trunks, the soil of the alpine pastures which skirted and indented the woods, and the mould...