There were extensive heaths and wild places, largely uninhabited, with "no industrial smoke, nothing faster on the roads than a horse, no incessant noises from the sky".
There are also rainforests and extensive wildflower heaths on the island.
Robert B. Conklin, who represents the Town of Riverhead on the council, also had concerns about the extensive excavation that heath officials are proposing.
However, our analysis of extensive areas with heath on shallow soils, based on vegetation and topographic maps, and fieldwork of uplands with various degrees of dissection, suggests that aspect is a poor predictor of shallow soils.
Speaking to BBC London 94.9, Ms Powell said: "It is the scale of the work we are objecting to which is going to lead to about two years of extensive disruption to Hampstead Heath, permanently disfiguring the natural setting... which we have argued won't resolve the problem the City of London has identified".
Because of its extensive lava fields and heaths, the southwest has little farmland.
But Heath's were more extensive, unusually so.
In the southern Arctic several of these shrubs modify the heath tundra, and low scrub woods may be extensive.
The extensive geographical coverage of health services and district health services minimized the geographical barriers to seeking heath care.
There exists extensive literature on epidemiologic studies and a much smaller literature on whole-animal studies of the heath effects of exposure to woodsmoke from stoves, agricultural burning, wildfires, and other sources (Naeher et al. 2007; Zelikoff et al. 2002).
