The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... Italy . An object in Nature obtains but a cursory notice , while the vulgar errors , with regard to Natural phenomena and their causes , current among the ignorant and superstitious Italians , are adopted without hesitation , and given ...
... Italy . An object in Nature obtains but a cursory notice , while the vulgar errors , with regard to Natural phenomena and their causes , current among the ignorant and superstitious Italians , are adopted without hesitation , and given ...
Pàgina xv
... quantity of water may , under a combination of circumstances , be * Quoted by the late Lord Broughton , then Sir John Cam Hobhouse , in his work on Italy . poured into the valley of the river . Yet neithere INTRODUCTION . XV.
... quantity of water may , under a combination of circumstances , be * Quoted by the late Lord Broughton , then Sir John Cam Hobhouse , in his work on Italy . poured into the valley of the river . Yet neithere INTRODUCTION . XV.
Pàgina 1
... Italy to Rome , and the late disastrous inundation in 1870 , have directed public attention to the river Tiber . Its destructive floods , and their causes , have formed the subject of conversation in every society , and various schemes ...
... Italy to Rome , and the late disastrous inundation in 1870 , have directed public attention to the river Tiber . Its destructive floods , and their causes , have formed the subject of conversation in every society , and various schemes ...
Pàgina 9
... Italians . The Nestore , where it enters the Tiber , flows in a bed of sand and shingle no less than a third of a Roman mile in width , * and after heavy rains must bring down an enormous body of water . Into the Cina , one of its ...
... Italians . The Nestore , where it enters the Tiber , flows in a bed of sand and shingle no less than a third of a Roman mile in width , * and after heavy rains must bring down an enormous body of water . Into the Cina , one of its ...
Pàgina 10
... Italy , green with vineyards and pastures , and golden with waving crops . Nor is it unhealthy , except in the immediate vicinity . of the lakes . The change was effected by canalizing the streams , and by the process called warping ...
... Italy , green with vineyards and pastures , and golden with waving crops . Nor is it unhealthy , except in the immediate vicinity . of the lakes . The change was effected by canalizing the streams , and by the process called warping ...
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