 | 1863 - 584 pàgines
...afford a favourable opportunity for ascertaining the average rate of deposit on the'alluvial plain ; for Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from...depressions, they must at first carry with them into the enclosure much mud washed from the steep surrounding banks, so that a greater quantity would be deposited... | |
 | 1863 - 552 pàgines
...afford a favourable opportunity for ascertaining the average rate of deposit on the'alluvial plain ; for Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from...appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the summnding grounds, which had been raised by the gradual accumulation over them of sediment annually... | |
 | 1863 - 740 pàgines
...a monument was really precipitated by the water or was artificially added. Sir C. Lyell says that " Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from which the Nile-water had been shut out for centuries appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the surrounding... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1864 - 716 pàgines
...for the boring may have been made where an arm of the river had been " silted up." Herodotus tolls us that in his time those spots from which the Nile...waters had been shut out for centuries appeared sunk. pp. 35-39. It may be added that Herodotus estimates that the Nile would fill a space equal to the Red... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 556 pàgines
...as to keep out the waters of the Nile. Whenever, then, says Sir Charles Lyell, "the waters at length break into such depressions, they must at first carry with them into the enclosure much mud washed from the steep surrounding banks, so that a greater quantity would be deposited... | |
 | John Kirk - 1866 - 272 pàgines
...remarks that "Herodotus tells us that in his time these spots" (not on the delta, but in the valley,) "from which the Nile waters had been shut out for...accumulation over them of sediment annually thrown down." Instead of two and a half, or even five inches, in a hundred years, which, at the highest, would only... | |
 | John Duns - 1899 - 330 pàgines
...says Sir Charles, " that in his time those spots from which the Nile had for centuries been shut out, appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from...accumulation over them of sediment annually thrown down. MUD DEPOSITS. 253 If the waters at length should break into such depressions, they must at first carry... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pàgines
...fig. 30, the areas on which they erected temples and statues, so as to exclude the waters of the Nile. Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from which the Nile waters had in this manner been shut out for centuries appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the surrounding... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 622 pàgines
...afford a favourable opportunity for ascertaining the average rate of deposit in the alluvial plain ; for Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from...depressions, they must at first carry with them into the enclosure much mud washed from the steep surrounding banks, so that a greater quantity would be deposited... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pàgines
...fig. 36, the areas on which they erected temples and statues, so as to exclude the waters of the Nile. Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from which the Nile waters had in this manner been shut out for centuries appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the surrounding... | |
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Herodotus tells us that in his time those spots from which the Nile waters had been shut out for centuries appeared sunk, and could be looked down into from the surrounding grounds, which had been raised by the gradual accumulation over them of sediment... 
