1.   Covering derelict land with trees, replacing long-cleared woods and forests, holds a great attraction.

2.   If current trends continue, all natural forest land with significant commercial value will be gone within a generation.

3.   In some areas he could plant his land with windmills.

4.   Indeed, by the late Silurian, colonization of the changing land with its newly emerging continents was well under way.

5.   It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer.

6.   It was a land with no nascent art, save the reflected mirror of its colonial masters.

7.   The Earth, a giant moon to the Moon, was flooding the land below with its radiance.

8.   What was the sense of every rancher enclosing his land with a barbed-wire fence?

9.   In another passage, Melville again contrasts the land with the sea.