 Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent at this season in the great rivers of South America; the llanos of the Orinoco are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms...  The Earth and Man ... - Side 157av Arnold Guyot - 1855Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1850 - 704 sider
...are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods of 40 feet rise and upwards are frequent at this season...are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which, like those... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1849 - 376 sider
...and which are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which, like those... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1849 - 386 sider
...and which are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which, like those... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 sider
...the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods attaining an elevation of forty feet and upwards are frequent at this season in the great...changed into an inland sea ; the Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows to a vast distance ; the Paraguay forms lagoons, which, like those... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1853 - 386 sider
...mysterious, which are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...flows through. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which, 3 those of Xarayes, are more than three hundred miles in length, and ooze away during the dry season... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 358 sider
...mysterious, which are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains ? Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...in the great rivers of South America; the llanos of th£ Orinoco are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates to a vast distance the plains it... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1858 - 368 sider
...mysterious, which are due to the circumstance that the region of its sources receives the tropical rains? Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...which, like those of Xarayes, are more than three bundred miles in length, and ooze away during the dry season. The quantity of water contained in the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 512 sider
...of the great basins of the world, the soil of which is only to be subjected to cultivation when * " Floods of forty feet rise and upwards are frequent...are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows, to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which like those... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 510 sider
...of which is only to be subjected to cultivation when * " Floods of forty feet riae and upwards arc frequent at this season in the great rivers of South...are changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows, to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which like those... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 500 sider
...changed into an inland sea. The Amazon inundates the plains through which it flows, to a vast distance. The Paraguay forms lagoons, which like those of Xarayes,...miles in length, and ooze away during the dry season." — GuyoVs Earth and Man, p. 136. f " On the other side of the Andes all is changed. Neither the tradewind... | |
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