... higher regions are poured down in such profusion that the river-beds are unable to contain them. They accordingly overflow, and convert the ground into a species of swamp, which, acted on by the burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively... History of India - Page 14by William C. Pearce - 1876 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Murray - 1832 - 314 pages
...burning rays cf a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...foliage, while long grass and prickly shrubs shoot up so dense and so close as to form an almost impenetrable barrier. It is still more awfully guarded by the... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1850 - 776 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...the pestilential vapours exhaling from those dark receives, which make it at certain seasons a region of death. CHAP. i. Hence the destruction which... | |
| 1855 - 800 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it at certain seasons a region of death. Hence the destruction which overtakes an army that encamps for any length of time near this valley,... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1859 - 752 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it at certain seasons a region of death. Hence the destruction which overtakes an army that encamps for any length of time near this valley,... | |
| 1866 - 408 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked, rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...which make it, at certain seasons, a region of death. Beneath these melancholy shades, too, the elephant, the tiger, and other wild animals, prowl unmolested... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked, rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...mass of dark and dismal foliage, while long grass arid prickly shrubs shoot up so densely and so close as to form an almost impenetrable barrier. It... | |
| Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - 448 pages
...burning rays of a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather than covered. The soil is concealed beneath...impenetrable barrier. It is still more awfully guarded by the pestilential2 vapours exhaling from those dark recesses, which make it, at certain seasons, a region... | |
| George Gill (schoolmaster.) - 1879 - 212 pages
...a tropical sun, throws up an excessively rank vegetation, whereby the earth is choked rather titan covered. " The soil is concealed beneath a mass of...which make it, at certain seasons, a region of death. Beneath these melancholy ehades, too, the elephant, the tiger, and other wild animals prowl, unmolested... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 282 pages
...that the earth is choked rather than covered by it. 4. The soil is concealed beneath a mass of dark foliage, while long grass and prickly shrubs shoot...still more awfully guarded by the pestilential vapours which arise from it, and which make it at certain seasons a region of death. In these dark recesses... | |
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