The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... hot breath of the plains , as it strikes their sides , 1 Pressure also has an important influence , but was omitted above for the sake of simplicity . receiving a sudden chill , throws down part of the The Uses of Mountains . 37.
... hot breath of the plains , as it strikes their sides , 1 Pressure also has an important influence , but was omitted above for the sake of simplicity . receiving a sudden chill , throws down part of the The Uses of Mountains . 37.
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... sides force the winds which strike them to ascend into higher regions , - wedging them up as waves run up a sloping stony bank on the seashore , - and when the winds reach higher regions of the atmosphere they must ( as explained above ) ...
... sides force the winds which strike them to ascend into higher regions , - wedging them up as waves run up a sloping stony bank on the seashore , - and when the winds reach higher regions of the atmosphere they must ( as explained above ) ...
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... side of Britain which catches most of the rain . Very instructive it is to compare the annual rainfall in different parts of Britain . On Dartmoor about 86 inches of rain fall every year , while in London only about 24 inches fall ...
... side of Britain which catches most of the rain . Very instructive it is to compare the annual rainfall in different parts of Britain . On Dartmoor about 86 inches of rain fall every year , while in London only about 24 inches fall ...
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... side of Britain , which is mountainous , while the east side is flat , and also to the fact that while easterly winds , which have come over the continent , are dry , our prevailing winds are from the west and southwest , and are con ...
... side of Britain , which is mountainous , while the east side is flat , and also to the fact that while easterly winds , which have come over the continent , are dry , our prevailing winds are from the west and southwest , and are con ...
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... sides are . Tiny threads of streams trickle slowly along every- where ; peat - beds are saturated with dark - brown water ; even the grass and soil are generally more or less wet , especially under pine forests . One can generally get a ...
... sides are . Tiny threads of streams trickle slowly along every- where ; peat - beds are saturated with dark - brown water ; even the grass and soil are generally more or less wet , especially under pine forests . One can generally get a ...
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Страница 120 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave.
Страница 120 - ... as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
Страница 120 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,— laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 301 - ... their rude and changeful ways among her rocks. Patiently, eddy by eddy, the clear green streams wind along their well-known beds; and under the dark quietness of the undisturbed pines, there spring up, year by year, such company of joyful flowers as I know not the like of among all the blessings of the earth.
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