 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 654 pages
...description; and it is with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed. marshes by their being thinly covered with a sward...which evinced the existence of water or a very thin mnd immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - Michigan - 1879 - 324 pages
...of which are composed of a marsh similar to the above described. The streams are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Franklin Ellis - Genesee County (Mich.) - 1879 - 670 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...covered with a sward of grass, by walking on which evinces the existence of water, or a very thin mud, immediately under their covering, which sinks from... | |
 | Samuel W. Durant - Kalamazoo County (Mich.) - 1880 - 761 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...covered with a sward of grass, by walking on which evinces the existence of water, or a very thin mud, immediately under their covering, which sinks from... | |
 | Michael A. Leeson, Damon Clark - Saginaw County (Mich.) - 1881 - 974 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed with safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Kent County (Mich.) - 1881 - 1431 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed with safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Jackson County (Mich.) - 1881 - 1173 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed with safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Macomb County (Mich.) - 1882 - 952 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed with safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Macomb County (Mich.) - 1882 - 954 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed with safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Muskegon County (Mich.) - 1882 - 164 pages
...be found, over which horses can be conveyed. "A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibitad in many of the marshes, by their being thinly covered...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
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... covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step, and at the same time rising before and behind the person passing over. The margins of many of the lakes and streams are in a similar situation, and in many... 
