 ... numerous ravines, nearly all of which converge into one valley, which thus receives a large proportion of the drainage of the peninsula. The steepness of the hills, the hardness of the rocks, and the scarceness of the soil upon them, all combine to...  Under the Southern Cross - الصفحة 15بواسطة Henry Cornish - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 369عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Madras literary society - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 722
...rocks and the scarcity of soil on them, all combine to prevent any great amount of absorption, and thus a very moderate fall of rain suffices to send a stupendous...the sea, not unfrequently attains the proportions of an unfordable river. The damage done by this torrent has frequently been considerable, during my residence... | |
 | 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...rocks and the scarcity of soil on them, all combine to prevent any great amount of absorption, and thus a very moderate fall of rain suffices to send a stupendous...the sea, not unfrequently attains the proportions of an unfordable river. The damage done by this torrent has frequently been considerable, during my residence... | |
 | Sir Robert Lambert Playfair - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...the scarceness of the soil upon them, all combine to prevent any great amount of absorption, and thus a very moderate fall of rain suffices to send a stupendous...river. To collect and store this water, the reservoirs were constructed. They are extremely fantastic in their shapes : some are formed by a dyke being built... | |
 | Frederick Mercer Hunter - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...the scarceness of the soil upon them, all combine to prevent any great amount of absorption, and thus a very moderate fall of rain suffices to send a stupendous...extremely fantastic in their shapes ; some are formed by a dike being built across the gorge of a valley ; in others the soil in front of a re-entering angle... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...entire superficies of Aden. The ravines which intersect this plateau converge into one valley, and a very moderate fall of rain suffices to send a stupendous torrent down it. This water is partly retained in the tanks, which were made to receive it, and which are so... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...fall of rain suffices to send down the valley a stupendous torrent of water, which, before reaching the sea, not unfrequently attains the proportions...river. To collect and store this water, the reservoirs have been constructed. They are fantastic in shape. Some are formed by a dyke built across the gorge... | |
 | Reuben Ahroni - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...richly strewn with lava and devoid of soil to absorb the streaming water, even a short rainfall would send "a stupendous torrent of water down the valley, which, ere it reaches the sea, not infrequent attains the proportions of a river," pouring down violently into the center of the town... | |
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