 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...striking in, they increase to a large trunk, and become a parent tree, throwing out new branch• •s from the top. These in time suspend their roots, and,...receiving nourishment from the earth, swell into trunks, • ind shoot forth other branches; thus continuing in a state •if progression so long as the first... | |
 | 1821 - 188 pages
...the surface ; and there striking in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the top: these in time suspend their roots, which, swelling into trunks, produce olher branches ; thus continuing in a state of progression, as... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Natural history - 1822 - 194 pages
...there striking in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, like the old ones, shooting out new branches from the top ; these in time suspend their roots also, which, swelling into trunks, produce other branches. In this wonderful manner a forest is formed,... | |
 | 1836 - 634 pages
...the surface ; and there striking in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shouting out new branches from the top : these in time suspend their roots, which, swelling into trunks, produce other branches, thus continuing in a state of progression as long... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the tops. These in time suspend their roots, and receiving nourishment...continuing in a state of progression, so long as the earth, the first parent of them all, contributes her sustenance. A Banian tree, with many trunks, forms... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the tops. These in time suspend their roots, and receiving nourishment...continuing in a state of progression, so long as the earth, the first parent of them all, contributes her sustenance. A Banian tree, with many trunks, forms... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1828 - 412 pages
...increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the tops. These m time suspend their roots, and receiving nourishment...continuing in a state of progression, so long as the earth, the first parent of them all, contributes her sustenance. A Banian tree, with many trunks, forms... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1829 - 414 pages
...they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the tops. Those in time suspend their roots, and receiving nourishment...continuing in a state of progression, so long as the earth, the first parent of them all, contributes her sustenance. A Banian tree, with many trunks, forms... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...the surface ; and there striking in, they increase to large trunks, and become parent trees, shooting out new branches from the top : these in time suspend their roots, which, swelling into trunks, produce other branches ; thus continuing in a state of progression as... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1830 - 414 pages
...become parent trees, snooting out new branches from the tops. These in time suspend their roots, add receiving nourishment from the earth, swell into trunks,...continuing in a state of progression, so long as the earth, the first parent of them all, contributes her sustenance. A Banian tree, with many trunks, forms... | |
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... throws out its own roots ; at first, in small tender fibres, several yards from the ground ; these continually grow thicker, until, by a gradual descent, they reach... 
