 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 594 pàgines
...from all springs, which can only be effectually performed by under-draining: 1 . Origin of Springs. The water which falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, snow, &c., penetrates its substance till it meets with a stratum of clay, stone, or some other substance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1850 - 638 pàgines
...what passes there, many instances of filtration present themselves to our notice ; it is by filtration that the water which falls upon the surface of the earth in dew, showers of rain, or storms of hail or snow, makes its way into the soil which it vivifies ; it... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1864 - 148 pàgines
...of more than eight to one. It is another proposition, laid down and enforced with much reiteration, that the water which falls upon the surface of the earth, in whatever latitude, is entirely, or almost entirely, raised from the torrid zone. This, indeed, is a... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1864 - 878 pàgines
...of more than eight to one. It is another proposition, laid down and enforced with much reiteration, that the water which falls upon the surface of the earth, in whatever latitude, is entirely, or almost entirely, raised from the torrid zone. This, indeed, is a... | |
 | American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers - 1894 - 814 pàgines
...course, as finding there a ready exit and discharge, being partly exhaled thence up into the atmosphere, and partly flowing forth upon the surface of the earth,...falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, bears also some, tho' a lesser, share in this action ; this, soaking into the strata which Ire near the surface,... | |
 | Franz Pošepný - 1902 - 842 pàgines
...course, as finding there a ready exit and discharge, being partly exhaled thence up into the atmosphere, and partly flowing forth upon the surface of the earth,...falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, bears also some, Iho' a lesser, share in this action ; this, soaking into the strata which lye near the surface,... | |
 | František Pošepný - 1902 - 844 pàgines
...discharge, being panlj exhaled thence up into the atmosphere, and partly flowing forth upon the surffcs of the earth, and forming springs and rivers. " That...which falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, bean sl-j gome, tho' a lesser, share in this action ; this, soaking into the strata which ke near the... | |
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... corpuscles which lye loose in its way, and are withal so small as to be able to pass those interstices ; forcing them along with it into the perpendicular intervalls ; to which it naturally directs its course, as finding there a ready exit and discharge,... 