Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Alfred Russel Wallace. day , till the increased pressure caused the leakage to increase so as exactly to balance the supply ; while in the other the water will sink till the decreasing pressure causes the leakage to decrease so as to ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. day , till the increased pressure caused the leakage to increase so as exactly to balance the supply ; while in the other the water will sink till the decreasing pressure causes the leakage to decrease so as to ...
Page 15
... quantity of atmospheric vapour , so that copious dews and heavy showers of rain are produced at comparatively high temperatures and low altitudes . The drops of rain rapidly increase in RAINFALL AT LONDON AND BATAVIA . 15.
... quantity of atmospheric vapour , so that copious dews and heavy showers of rain are produced at comparatively high temperatures and low altitudes . The drops of rain rapidly increase in RAINFALL AT LONDON AND BATAVIA . 15.
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Alfred Russel Wallace. low altitudes . The drops of rain rapidly increase in size while falling through the saturated ... increased temperature is present during every month in the year , since the lowest monthly fall at the former place ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. low altitudes . The drops of rain rapidly increase in size while falling through the saturated ... increased temperature is present during every month in the year , since the lowest monthly fall at the former place ...
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... increased rainfall ; but even more important and more certain , is the action of forests in checking evaporation from the soil and causing perennial springs to flow , which may be collected in C 2 vast storage tanks and will serve to ...
... increased rainfall ; but even more important and more certain , is the action of forests in checking evaporation from the soil and causing perennial springs to flow , which may be collected in C 2 vast storage tanks and will serve to ...
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... increases perceptibly during the first ten minutes . During the next ten minutes however it becomes rapidly darker , and at the end of 1 For a terrible picture of the irreparable devastation caused by the reckless clearing of forests ...
... increases perceptibly during the first ten minutes . During the next ten minutes however it becomes rapidly darker , and at the end of 1 For a terrible picture of the irreparable devastation caused by the reckless clearing of forests ...
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