uncultivable

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Portions of the arid Negev, an area once written off as largely uncultivable, today grow fruit, flowers and winter vegetables eagerly sought by European markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the sea, the uncultivable sea, as Homer calls it, is itself a road, whereas on earth, whether it be mountain or desert or field, roads have first painfully to be made.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

The great pine forests below were a cheerful contrast to the illimitable fields of ice and snow and uncultivable lands which they had so lately traversed.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)

The uncultivable, unreclaimed forest, mountain, and bog-land was common property in the wider sense that there was no several appropriation of it even temporarily by individuals.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

There are besides 12,300 sq. m. of uncultivable area covered by lakes, rivers, towns, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various