Lectures Upon Natural History: Geology, Chemistry, the Application of Steam, and Interesting Discoveries in the ArtsLilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833 - 408 pàgines |
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Pàgina 76
... Mississippi valley scoop hundreds of little cir- cular chambers from the hard and chalky banks of the rivers , always so chosen as that portions of rock , or of the solid bank , jut over their little municipal establishment , and defend ...
... Mississippi valley scoop hundreds of little cir- cular chambers from the hard and chalky banks of the rivers , always so chosen as that portions of rock , or of the solid bank , jut over their little municipal establishment , and defend ...
Pàgina 230
... Mississippi is thrown back more than a hundred miles by the comparatively small tides of the Gulf of Mexico . What a powerful reflux in the impetuous St Lawrence , the vast Amazon , the broad La Plata , at whose estuaries the tides run ...
... Mississippi is thrown back more than a hundred miles by the comparatively small tides of the Gulf of Mexico . What a powerful reflux in the impetuous St Lawrence , the vast Amazon , the broad La Plata , at whose estuaries the tides run ...
Pàgina 246
... Mississippi and Red River , the re- verse has decidedly been the case . A forest so dense as to prevent the free circulation of the air , and to screen its reeking vegetation from the sunbeams , is manifestly insalubrious to the ...
... Mississippi and Red River , the re- verse has decidedly been the case . A forest so dense as to prevent the free circulation of the air , and to screen its reeking vegetation from the sunbeams , is manifestly insalubrious to the ...
Pàgina 247
... Mississippi , are both hotter in summer , and colder in winter , than the forest country east of that mighty stream . These prairies expe- rience rarer and more scanty rains than the valleys that are covered with trees . Over vast ...
... Mississippi , are both hotter in summer , and colder in winter , than the forest country east of that mighty stream . These prairies expe- rience rarer and more scanty rains than the valleys that are covered with trees . Over vast ...
Pàgina 264
... Mississippi , as we shall hereafter see , is more freshly and entirely of secondary formation , and more abundant in or- ganic remains , than any other known portion of the earth . No event that has occurred since the commencement of ...
... Mississippi , as we shall hereafter see , is more freshly and entirely of secondary formation , and more abundant in or- ganic remains , than any other known portion of the earth . No event that has occurred since the commencement of ...
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