 | Edward Whymper - Alps - 1871 - 520 pages
...tops, and rise above them. . . . The gorges, under the influence of the sun which cracks and shivcrs to fragments the very rocks, and of the rain which...raised several feet in a single year by the debris. . . . An indirect proof of the increase of the evil is to be found in the depopulation of the country.... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1874 - 702 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - Geology - 1877 - 514 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as -they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - Geology - 1877 - 542 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of. desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | Floods - 1880 - 374 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...several feet in a single year, by the debris, so that that they reach the level of the bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Human geography - 1882 - 720 pages
...eruption to cover the plains with their ruins. These gorges, under the influence of the sun whicli cracks and shivers to fragments the very rocks, and...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Natural resources - 1885 - 666 pages
...one of these landscapes furrowed with so many ravines, it presents only images of desolation and of death. Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance, as they issue from the mountains, and they spread... | |
 | Antonin Rousset - Forests and forestry - 1886 - 128 pages
...which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movement. If you overlook from an eminence one of these landscapes...bridges, which, of course, are then carried off. The torrent-beds are recognized at a great distance as they issue from the mountains, and they spread themselves... | |
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Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet in thickness, which have rolled down and spread far over the plain, surround large trees, bury even their tops, and rise above them, leaving to the husbandman no longer a ray of hope. One can imagine no sadder... 
