 | Engineers Club of Philadelphia - 1892 - 432 pages
...The midlands are moderately well watered, but the cultivable lands arc confined to the river valleys. The highlands are cold but productive. The lower course...that possesses no drainage to the ocean. The rainfall is scant, rarely exceeding an inch or two a year, and in many places consisting of nothing more than... | |
 | 1893 - 394 pages
...The midlands are moderately well watered, but the cultivable lands are confined to the river valleys. The highlands are cold but productive. The lower course...that possesses no drainage to the ocean. The rainfall is scant, rarely exceeding an inch or two a year, and in many places consisting of nothing more than... | |
 | American Bureau of Geography - 1900 - 470 pages
...The midlands are moderately well watered, but the cultivable lands are confined to the river valleys. The highlands are cold, but productive. The lower...that possesses no drainage to the ocean. The rainfall is scant, rarely exceeding an inch or two a year, and in many places consisting of nothing more than... | |
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... are fair types of the surface of the Colorado plateaus. The lowest, "sandy" and alkaline in character, are worthless for the cultivation of crops, unless the latter be of lizards and rattlesnakes. The midlands are moderately well watered, but the... 