The Geography of River SystemsJ.R. Dickons, 1859 - 100 من الصفحات |
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affluent Allier ancient Avon basin Basin.-The battle beautiful beautifully situated built canal capital Carboniferous castle celebrated centre chalk chief chiefly Chiltern hills Clyde coal confluence considerable trade cotton course Danube district drained east Elbe embraces an area entrepôt estuary Europe exports factures feeder feet fertile flax flows France Glasgow grain hemp hills iron joined junction lake large quantities leather left bank linen Loire London manu manufac manufactures of silk manufactures of woollen minerals Moselle mountains navigable Neckar neighbourhood North York Moors north-east north-west Ochill hills Old Red Sandstone Ouse Passau picturesque plain pleasantly situated population port principal receives Red Sandstone Rhine Rhone right bank rises river rocks salt Saone scenery Severn Shannon south-east south-west square miles Staffordshire stands stream strongly fortified Tertiary formation Thames timber total length trade in corn Trent Tweed valley vicinity Vistula Volga waters wine wool
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الصفحة 92 - Benares is, in fact, a very industrious and wealthy as well as a very holy city. It is the great mart where the shawls of the north, the diamonds of the south, and the muslins of Dacca and the eastern provinces centre, and it has very considerable silk, cotton, and fine woollen...
الصفحة 82 - Bourdeaux en diligence, and arrived in due time at Nantes. Nantes, even to one arriving in it from Bourdeaux, is a noble city; and its situation can scarcely be excelled. It stands upon the slopes and summit of a gentle hill, half encircled by the Loire, which is broad, clear, and tolerably rapid; and its beauty is greatly increased by several islets which dot the river exactly opposite to the town, and which are covered with pretty country-houses and gardens. The Loire is extremely shallow, where...
الصفحة 75 - Geologically? says one authority, * the whole of France may be considered as one extensive basin, the circumference and centre of which consist of primitive formations, the intermediate space being filled with those of a secondary and tertiary kind.' Taking this statement as a mere proximate outline, we find primary rocks in the Ardennes on the north ; in the Vosges, Jura, and Alpine ridges on the east; in the Pyrenees on the south; in Bretagne, Maine, and Normandy on the west; and, centrally, in...
الصفحة 85 - Unlike Paris and many other French towns, which stand Isolated, as it were, \a the country, with ploughed land and meadows coming close up to the barriers, Lyons appears as the nucleus of a vast population, melting gradually by Its suburbs Into clusters of villages, which break up Into smaller villages, hamlets, villas, and manufactories.
الصفحة 91 - The former, though neither the largest or longest, is considered by the Hindoos as the true Ganges. It issues about twelve miles above Gangoutri, from under a low arch called the
الصفحة 69 - ... of distance. Some further and loftier pinnacles may indeed be sometimes observed mingling with the tints of the sky; but in the body of the picture, the lake is clasped by the mountains in a close embrace, only varying in character from the gentle to the grim. ' And these mountains, be it observed, are, after all, only mountains in miniature. They have often, indeed, the steepness, the rudeness, the rock, the shadow, the over-hanging ridge, or jagged pinnacle of the Giants of the Valley of the...
الصفحة 8 - In a word, both by land and water, there are so many turnings and windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens, capes, and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having the prospect changed by the continual appearance of new objects, while others are retiring out of sight.
الصفحة 69 - ... of a geographer's dotted mark, which signifies "here stands a town." No suburban streets, no straggling houses, no scattered farms, give relief to the taste by resembling the accidents of nature. The groves on the hill-sides are few and far between ; but there is no grove without a church-spire rising in the midst, and overtopping the trees. Frequently a daring and fantastic cliff frowns over the river, or rises majestically from the brow of the steep; and each of these cliffs is crowned with...
الصفحة 65 - Leipsic arc the most celebrated In Germany. They are held at the new year, at Easter, and at Michaelmas. The last two are the most Important. Above 20,000 dealers are aaid to have been present at the Easter fair in 1832, and above 13,000 at that of Michaelmas.
الصفحة 21 - ... prosperity is comparatively of recent date. It probably was a seat of the cloth trade from an early period, perhaps from the settlement of the Flemings in Yorkshire, in the time of Edward III. ; but we have no special notice of it before the time of Henry VIII., when Leland describes it as " a pretty market town subsisting chiefly by clothing, reasonably well built, and as large as Bradford, but not so ' quick' as it, and considerably less in size than Wakefield.