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  • Without mountains, but with its central peak of Bookit Timá rising about six hundred feet above the sea, the scenery is diversified with richly-wooded hills, evergreen dales, and luxuriant jungle-growth drooping over and reflecting its graceful fringes in many a little babbling brook.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

  • At times, some of the larger birds have crept close to my glade, to sleep in the shadows of the low jungle-growth.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • They consist mainly of submerged saw-grass plains extending 130 by 70 miles, studded with numerous islands which produce a semi-tropical jungle-growth.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • A tiger being thus located by his "kill," the long line of beating elephants, riderless except for their mahouts, goes crashing through the burnt-up jungle-growth, until a trumpeting from one of the elephants announces the neighbourhood of "stripes," for an elephant has an abnormally keen sense of smell.

    Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • I was pleased to see the ease with which the heaped-up jungle-growth is burnt at this season and the facility of road-making.

    To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

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