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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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