 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 páginas
...precipitation, the springs are entirely dried up, or become less abundant. The beds of the rivers, remaining diy during a part of the year, are converted into torrents,...bordered by the chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru inclosed between the Pacing Ocean and the Cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the justness... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 páginas
...their course : and instead of sloAvly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive nitrations, they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the...loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devas143 tale the country. Hence it results, that the destruction of forests, the want of permanent... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 páginas
...in their course: and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive nitrations, they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the...bordered by the chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru inclosed between the Pacific Ocean and the Cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the... | |
 | 1852 - 446 páginas
...their course ; and, instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtration, they furrow, during heavy showers, the sides of the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than... | |
 | Bombay Geographical Society - 1850 - 502 páginas
...inundations that devastate t!ie country. Hence it results that the destruction of forests, the waut of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together ' Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that within his own experience the climate... | |
 | 1851 - 438 páginas
...their course ; and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtration, they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the...that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena... | |
 | 1851 - 406 páginas
...their course ; and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtration, they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the...that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena... | |
 | 1852 - 450 páginas
...their course ; and, instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtration, they furrow, during heavy showers, the sides of the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than... | |
 | 1852 - 460 páginas
...their course ; and, instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive filtration, they furrow, during heavy showers, the sides of the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1854 - 584 páginas
...in their course, and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive nitration, they furrow, during heavy showers, the sides of the...soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate a country. These effects are remarked in India. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than... | |
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... they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence... 
