 | Edward Whymper - 1871 - 522 pages
...tops, and rise above them. . . . The gorges, under the influence of the sun which cracks and shivcrs to fragments the very rocks, and of the rain which...raised several feet in a single year by the debris. . . . An indirect proof of the increase of the evil is to be found in the depopulation of the country.... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - 1877 - 516 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as -they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - 1877 - 542 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of. desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | 1880 - 374 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1882 - 720 pages
...eruption to cover the plains with their ruins. These gorges, under the influence of the sun whicli cracks and shivers to fragments the very rocks, and...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - 666 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | Antonin Rousset - 1886 - 128 pages
...which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movement. If you overlook from an eminence one of these landscapes...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance as they issue from the mountains, and they spread themselves... | |
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