 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 oldal
...of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1865 - 581 oldal
...the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the searching sun bakes it to the consistence of porphyry. When...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | Edward Whymper - 1871 - 520 oldal
...pasturage, and the felling of the woods, have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence...it has neither support nor cohesion, it rolls down into the valleys, sometimes in floods resembling black, yellow, or reddish lava, and sometimes in streams... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 oldal
...of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 oldal
...stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistency of porphyry. When moistened by the rain, as it has...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1876 - 376 oldal
...stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistency of porphyry. When moistened by the rain, as it has...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | Kentucky. Geological survey, 1873-1891 - 1877 - 542 oldal
...of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | 1880 - 374 oldal
...stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistency of porphyry. When moistened by the rain, as it has...blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movements. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1882 - 720 oldal
...of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence...sometimes in streams of pebbles, and even huge blocks of Btone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their magnificent valley nature had been prodigal... | |
 | Antonin Rousset - 1886 - 128 oldal
...found nothing to check it, till part of it could find the crevices leading to the springs, and there When moistened by the rain, as it has neither support...blocks of stone which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive movement. If you overlook from an eminence one... | |
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Digne, which for months is without a cloud, produces droughts interrupted only by diluvial rains like those of the tropics. The abuse of the right of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and... 
