olkuez

Updated: June 3, 2025

"Olkuez and Schiewier in Poland," says Naumann, "lie in true sand deserts, and a boundless plain of sand stretches around Ozenstockau, on which there grows neither tree nor shrub. In heavy winds, this plain resembles a rolling sea, and the sand-hills rise and disappear like the waves of the ocean. I tried acacias and pines in vain; nothing would grow in such a soil.

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action