The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... miles , there arose before his mind the image of a mighty continent , with all its attendant features , boundless plains traversed by the river in its lower course , trackless forests overshadowing its stream , and tens of hundreds of miles ...
... miles , there arose before his mind the image of a mighty continent , with all its attendant features , boundless plains traversed by the river in its lower course , trackless forests overshadowing its stream , and tens of hundreds of miles ...
Pàgina xii
... miles of the broad Atlantic . The Tiber would be but a third or fourth rate tributary of the Orinoco . But if it does not speak to the imagination by its vastness , there is the element of the grand in its inundations , and it is ...
... miles of the broad Atlantic . The Tiber would be but a third or fourth rate tributary of the Orinoco . But if it does not speak to the imagination by its vastness , there is the element of the grand in its inundations , and it is ...
Pàgina xvi
... miles below Perugia , to the confluence of the Nera . The Report , which was drawn up after the death of Clement , and dedicated to his successor , Benedict XIV . , bears the date 1746 . 5. A Work on the Anio and the Inundation of 1826 ...
... miles below Perugia , to the confluence of the Nera . The Report , which was drawn up after the death of Clement , and dedicated to his successor , Benedict XIV . , bears the date 1746 . 5. A Work on the Anio and the Inundation of 1826 ...
Pàgina 7
... mile has force enough to turn a mill . If we are to believe Bacci , it exhales so warm a vapour that snow , notwithstanding the elevation of the region , will not lie along its course within half a mile . For a distance of fifty- six miles ...
... mile has force enough to turn a mill . If we are to believe Bacci , it exhales so warm a vapour that snow , notwithstanding the elevation of the region , will not lie along its course within half a mile . For a distance of fifty- six miles ...
Pàgina 9
... miles lower down on the right the Tiber receives the Nestore , a large and impetuous torrent , or torrentaccio , as it is called by the Italians . The Nestore , where it enters the Tiber , flows in a bed of sand and shingle no less than ...
... miles lower down on the right the Tiber receives the Nestore , a large and impetuous torrent , or torrentaccio , as it is called by the Italians . The Nestore , where it enters the Tiber , flows in a bed of sand and shingle no less than ...
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