 | 1888 - 900 pages
...climates of California, of Southern Europe, and of Northern Africa. The region extending from Alaska to Lower California presents more sudden transitions...with each other, than any other portion of the globe, this arising from the contour of its surface and the prevailing winds. A direct contrast to this is... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 776 pages
...the summers of California, southern Europe, and northern Africa ? 12. What region of North America presents more sudden transitions of climate and climates...with each other, than any other portion of the globe ? 13. Why are the afternoons of a St. Petersburg summer so hot ? 14. What is the length of the longest... | |
 | 1907 - 794 pages
...climates of California, of Southern Europe, and of Northern Africa. The region extending from Alaska Z $ 4 g D2GxEXʊTN V :R x ^ W... j = 0 5.^ ` C |rur f S% T) UJ؋ GΞQ }8 DcRp' Һ this arising from the contour of its surface and the prevailing winds. A direct contrast to this is... | |
 | 1873 - 560 pages
...westward by ground still higher than themselves. But vast tracts are enclosed between the different chains of mountains running north and south through this...may have been, determined by climatic conditions. H. KOETH AMERICA, EAST OP THE ROCKT MOUNTAINS. The forest zone of the United States, comprising the... | |
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... moisture, pass arid and dry, and consequently rain scarcely falls there. From the relation of this part of America to the prevailing winds, and from the contour of its surface, an endless diversity of climate is the result, and especially the middle... 