...the Sahara to have produced in adding to the site of the Alpine glaciers? If, between the years of 1812 and 1820, a mere diminution of the number of...sirocco blew could so much promote the growth and ooward movement of the ice, how much greater a change would result from the total cessation of the...

...be reaped from fields which formerly yielded two crops. If such changes can be experienced in lees than a century, without any perceptible modification...must have happened in the glacial period ; for we cannot suppose the action of the south wind to have been suspended : it was not in abeyance, but its...

...crops. If such changes cm be experienced in less than a century, without any perceptible modifie ilion in the physical geography of that part of Asia, what...would result from the total cessation of the same wind I But this would give no idea of what must have happened in the glacial period ; for we can not suppose...

...of the Sahara to have produced in adding to the size ot the Al,<ine glaciers ? If between the ye irs 1812 and 1820, a mere diminution of the number of days during which the sirocc > blew could so much promote the growth and onward movement of the ice, how much greater a change...

...one crop a year can now be reaped from fields which formerly yielded two crops. If such changes cm be experienced in less than a century, without any...must have happened in the glacial period ; for we can not suppose the action of the south wind to have been suspended : it was not in abeyance, but its...

...modification in the physical geography of that part of Asia, what mighty effects may we not unagine the submergence of the Sahara to have produced in...must have happened in the glacial period ; for we can not suppose the action of the south wind to have been suspended : it was not in abeyance, but its...

...inhabitants, so as greatly to encroach on the cultivated lands, and have so altered the climate of the adjoining valleys immediately below, that only one...the growth and onward movement of the ice, how much greatsr a change would result from the total cessation of the same wind ! But this would give no idea...

...crop a year can now be reaped from fields which formerly yielded two crops. If such changes can he experienced in less than a century, without any perceptible...must have happened in the glacial period ; for we cannot suppose the action of the south wind to have been suspended : it was not in abeyance, but its...