| Conrad Malte-Brun - 1827 - 564 pages
...afford. Connection of I In general all the chains of mountains in the same continent, seem to"**""• I have a mutual connection more Or less apparent: they...little, or rather no affinity to each other. Such arc the mountains of Scandinavia and of Scotland ; mountains as independent as the character of the... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - 1829 - 552 pages
...afford. Connection of I In general all the chains- of mountains in the same continent, seem to chami. | have a mutual connection more or less apparent: they...frame work to the land, and appear, in the origin of tilings, to have determined the shape which it was to assume; but this analogy, were we to generalise... | |
| Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 pages
...continent, seem to have a mutu.T. connection more or less apparent ; they form a sort of frame-work to the land, and appear in the origin of things to have determined the shape which it was to assume ; bu; this analogy, were we to generalize too much, would lead us into error. There are many chains,... | |
| Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 pages
...continent, seem to have a mutua. connection more or less apparent ; they form a sort of frame-work to the land, and appear in the origin of things to...which it was to assume ; but this analogy, were we to generalize too much, would lead us into error. There are many chains, which have very little, or, rather,... | |
| Frederick Moses - 1849 - 164 pages
...more distinctly defined than even those which the Alps and Pyrennees afford. " In general, all the chains of mountains in the same continent seem to...connection, more or less apparent ; they form a sort of frame-work to the land, and 117 appear in the origin of things, to have determined the shape it was... | |
| A. Barrington - 1850 - 448 pages
...great chains evidently bear the stamp of high antiquity. In general, all the mountainous chains on the same continent seem to have a mutual connection, more or less apparent. They form a sort of frame-work to the land, and appear to have determined, to some extent, the form it was to assume. There... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 724 pages
...more distinctly denned, than even those which the Alps and the Pyrennees afford. In general all the chains of mountains in the same continent, seem to...origin of things, to have determined the shape which it лгав to assume; but this analogy, were we to generalise too much, would lead us into error. There... | |
| |