Significados de extensive tracts em inglês

On the other hand, extensive tracts towards the south are almost barren.

The ores of these metals are found in abundance over extensive tracts of country.

Parts of different estates pass through extensive tracts of bog, of which the boundaries are uncertain.

Their summits were crowned with extensive tracts of pitch pine, checkered with small patches of the quivering aspen.

I had traveled on foot all over Southern Germany, visited Vienna, and explored extensive tracts of the Alps.

But though the continents had assumed their permanent outlines, extensive tracts of land still remained covered with ocean.

In no other country are there such extensive tracts without alcohol as the "Dry States" of America.

From this lonely spot I make pilgrimages into the surrounding wilderness, and traverse extensive tracts of the Great Desert.

They live principally by agriculture, and own extensive tracts of land in the townships of Granville, Franklin, and Mercer.

Its banks were soft and boggy, and beyond it we saw through the trees extensive tracts covered with reeds.

We saw how, in the year 1848, extensive tracts of forest were laid waste-notplundered-inaccordance with a well concocted plan.

Thus are extensive tracts formed, ultimately to be brought into a state of cultivation, and rendered subservient to the wants of man.

In 1785 the author's father, who had an interest in extensive tracts of land in this wilderness, arrived with a party of surveyors.

He became the owner of extensive tracts of land, some of which are now occupied by the streets and residences of the village.

For three or four years, between 1762 and 1765, he trafficked a good deal in lands, buying and selling numerous and some quite extensive tracts.

Extensive tracts of open ground that come down towards the sea in gradual green slopes were varied by clumps of wood and large single trees.