| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 lehte
...sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru inclosed between the Pacing Ocean and the Cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the justness of this assertion... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 lehte
...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...bordered by the chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru, enclosed between the Pacific Ocean and the cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the... | |
| 1852 - 446 lehte
...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...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 lehte
...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 - 406 lehte
...and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that, within his own experience, the climate... | |
| 1851 - 438 lehte
...and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that, within his own experience, the climate... | |
| 1852 - 460 lehte
...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...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 - 450 lehte
...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...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... | |
| Charles John Ellicott - 1865 - 208 lehte
...the loosened soil, and forming sudden and destructive inundations. Hence it results that the clearing of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together.' — Humboldt, Travels in America, Vol. ii. p. 9 (Bohn). SEEMON II. NOTE A, p. 28. Some curious thoughts... | |
| 1885 - 630 lehte
...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...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Subsequent to the promulgation of these views South America was twice visited by M. Boussingault, at... | |
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