 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 546 páginas
...frequent fogs which render it difficult to land on the coast of Monterey and San Francisco give vigour to vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth. In the eighteen missions which now exist in New California, wheat, maize, and haricots .(/mo/«), are... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 538 páginas
...frequent fogs which render it difficult to land on the coast of Monterey and San Francisco give vigour to vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth. L XV.IntendancyofNaoCalifornia. In the eighteen missions which now exist in New California, wheat,... | |
 | James Bell - 1831 - 778 páginas
...In New California, on the contrary, the air is obscured by frequent fogs, which however invigorate vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth ; and the climate is much more mild than in the same latitudes on the eastern coast of America. In... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - 1849 - 190 páginas
...foggy, but the frequent fogs which render it difficult to land at Monterey and San Francisco give vigour to vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth. Wheat, maize and haricots (frisoles of the Spanish) are cultivated in abundance, while barley, beans... | |
 | Sir Thomas Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell - 1850 - 292 páginas
...character of New California in this respect ? There the air is obscured by frequent fogs, which invigorate vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth, and the climate is much more mild than in the same latitudes on the eastern coast of America. What... | |
 | 1925 - 504 páginas
...The climate is much more mild than in the same latitude on the eastern coast of the new Con65 tinent. The frequent fogs give vigor to vegetation, and fertilize...partially true, as will appear from what is stated above. For salubrity there is no climate in the world superior to that of the coast of California. Disease... | |
 | 1925 - 232 páginas
...The climate is much more mild than in the same latitude on the eastern coast of the new Con65 tinent. The frequent fogs give vigor to vegetation, and fertilize...partially true, as will appear from what is stated above. For salubrity there is no climate in the world superior to that of the coast of California. Disease... | |
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The frequent fogs give vigor to vegetation and fertilize the soil, which is covered with a black and spongy earth." This last observation is only partially true, as will appear from what is stated above. 