| 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,... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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