The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina 99
... England , only ten and , in exceptional cases , eighteen feet ( Land and Sea ) ; but half this height is depression below the mean level of the sea . by northerly winds , however violent they may be ; H 2 REGARDING THE INUNDATIONS . 99.
... England , only ten and , in exceptional cases , eighteen feet ( Land and Sea ) ; but half this height is depression below the mean level of the sea . by northerly winds , however violent they may be ; H 2 REGARDING THE INUNDATIONS . 99.
Pàgina 124
... England , as I have before observed , there are instances , though on a much smaller scale , of similar disasters , when the dikes of the Ousef give way from the pressure of the water . But the Ouse is a mere brook in comparison with ...
... England , as I have before observed , there are instances , though on a much smaller scale , of similar disasters , when the dikes of the Ousef give way from the pressure of the water . But the Ouse is a mere brook in comparison with ...
Pàgina 130
... England , where it is exposed to many casualties from the density of the population and the greater severity of the winters , is comparatively plentiful on the Tiber and the smaller streams which discharge themselves into it ; for there ...
... England , where it is exposed to many casualties from the density of the population and the greater severity of the winters , is comparatively plentiful on the Tiber and the smaller streams which discharge themselves into it ; for there ...
Pàgina 138
... England and the north of Europe , spends only the winter months in central Italy , and quits it for cooler regions when the heats of summer have begun to dry up the marshes which it frequents and to limit the means of procuring its ...
... England and the north of Europe , spends only the winter months in central Italy , and quits it for cooler regions when the heats of summer have begun to dry up the marshes which it frequents and to limit the means of procuring its ...
Pàgina 142
... England and the north of Europe . On these occasions both hawk and heron soar to an immense height , each striving to rise above the other , the hawk to acquire the impetus for making its deadly swoop , the heron to escape it by gaining ...
... England and the north of Europe . On these occasions both hawk and heron soar to an immense height , each striving to rise above the other , the hawk to acquire the impetus for making its deadly swoop , the heron to escape it by gaining ...
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