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" ... they furrow during heavy showers the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the existence... "
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New ... - Page 144
by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 4

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations, that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru inclosed between the Pacing Ocean and the Cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the justness of this assertion...
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Volume 8

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...bordered by the chain of the Alps, and Lower Peru, enclosed between the Pacific Ocean and the cordillera of the Andes, exhibit striking proofs of the...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 446 pages
...the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than...
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 9

Bombay Geographical Society - 1850 - 502 pages
...inundations that devastate t!ie country. Hence it results that the destruction of forests, the waut of permanent springs, and the existence of torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together ' Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that within his own experience the climate...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 50

1851 - 406 pages
...and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that, within his own experience, the climate...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 50

1851 - 438 pages
...and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destructions of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Dr Duncan, of the Bombay medical establishment, mentions that, within his own experience, the climate...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 460 pages
...the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 450 pages
...the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results, that the destruction...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together. In India, their effects are very appreciable. At Dapoolie, the climate is much more hot and dry than...
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The Destiny of the Creature, and Other Sermons Preached Before the ...

Charles John Ellicott - 1865 - 208 pages
...the loosened soil, and forming sudden and destructive inundations. Hence it results that the clearing of forests, the want of permanent springs, and the...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together.' — Humboldt, Travels in America, Vol. ii. p. 9 (Bohn). SEEMON II. NOTE A, p. 28. Some curious thoughts...
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Journal of the National Indian Association, in Aid of Social ..., Issues 169-180

1885 - 630 pages
...the sides of the hills, bear down the loosened soil, and form those sudden inundations that devastate the country. Hence it results that the destruction...torrents, are three phenomena closely connected together." Subsequent to the promulgation of these views South America was twice visited by M. Boussingault, at...
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