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" The water of great rains falls more rapidly, and furrows the sides of the mountains by impetuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite most frequently in a great canal which... "
Universal geography, or A description of all the parts of the world - Page 291
by Malthe Conrad Bruun - 1822
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Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World ..., Volume 1

Conrad Malte-Brun - 1827 - 564 pages
...Ratnazzini, Topographia Mutinenss. tuous irregular torrents. The union of those currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite most frequently in a great canal, which lakes tlie name of river, and which conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of the earth. The declivities,...
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Universal Geography: Or, A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New ...

Conrad Malte-Brun - 1829 - 552 pages
...Ramazzini, Topographia Mutinensis. tuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite...which discharge themselves into one particular river, arc called the basin of that river, or its hydrographical region. It frequently hap- I Hvdr«i»i>in....
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A System of School Geography: Chiefly Derived from Malte-Brun, and Arranged ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1833 - 300 pages
...the sides of the mountains by impetuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents form streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite...a great canal, which takes the name of river, and conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of the earth. The declivities, whence flow the streams and...
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A System of School Geography Chiefly Derived from Malte-Brun

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 300 pages
...the sides of the mountains by impetnous irregular torrents. The union of these currents form streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite...a great canal, which takes the name of river, and conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of Ifee earth. The declivities, whence flow the streams...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 3

1836 - 496 pages
...sides of the mountains by impetuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite...conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of the earth. Rivers which descend from primitive mountains into the secondary lands, often form cascades and cataracts....
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge

1836 - 496 pages
...sides of the mountains by impetuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite most frequently in a great caval which takes the name oí river, and which conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of the earth....
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 3

1843 - 488 pages
...sides of the mountains by impetuous irregular torrents. The union of these currents forms streams, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite...conveys to the ocean the collected tribute of the earth. Rivers which descend from primitive mountains into the secondary lands, often form cascades and cataracts....
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A Treatise on Physical Geography: Comprising Hydrology, Geognosy, Geology ...

A. Barrington - 1850 - 448 pages
...streams, which sometimes furrow the sides of the mountains. The union of these streamlets forms brooks, which, following the declivity of the ground, unite most frequently in a great stream, which takes the name of river, and which conveys the collected waters to the ocean. The declivities...
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