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الصفحة xii
... rivers . He will dwell with interest on the phases of the ocean , the storm , the calm , and the breeze , and will look for traces of the laws which regulate them . All this will induce a serious earnestness in his work , and teach him ...
... rivers . He will dwell with interest on the phases of the ocean , the storm , the calm , and the breeze , and will look for traces of the laws which regulate them . All this will induce a serious earnestness in his work , and teach him ...
الصفحة xx
... RIVERS . Page 71 Rivers considered as Rain - gauges - the ten largest , § 270. - Heat required to lift Va- por for these Rivers , 271. — Rain - fall in the Mississippi Valley , 272. — Its Area , and the latent Heat liberated during the ...
... RIVERS . Page 71 Rivers considered as Rain - gauges - the ten largest , § 270. - Heat required to lift Va- por for these Rivers , 271. — Rain - fall in the Mississippi Valley , 272. — Its Area , and the latent Heat liberated during the ...
الصفحة xxii
... Rivers and the Rains , serve as a Mantle for the salter and warmer Sea Water below , 426. - An under Current of warm but salt and heavy Water , 427. - De Haven's water Sky , 428.-Dr. Kane , 429. —Under Currents change Temperature slowly ...
... Rivers and the Rains , serve as a Mantle for the salter and warmer Sea Water below , 426. - An under Current of warm but salt and heavy Water , 427. - De Haven's water Sky , 428.-Dr. Kane , 429. —Under Currents change Temperature slowly ...
الصفحة xxiv
... Rivers have to cross the Steppes of Asia , 548. - How Climates in one Hemisphere depend upon the Arrangement of Land in the other , and upon the Course of the Winds , 549. - Terrestrial Adaptations , 550. - The Red Sea and its Vapors ...
... Rivers have to cross the Steppes of Asia , 548. - How Climates in one Hemisphere depend upon the Arrangement of Land in the other , and upon the Course of the Winds , 549. - Terrestrial Adaptations , 550. - The Red Sea and its Vapors ...
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... river to sea , and delivered by the obedient waters to each insect and to every plant in the ocean at the right time ... rivers and in rain it gathers up by ceaseless lixiviation food for the creatures that wait upon it . It carries off ...
... river to sea , and delivered by the obedient waters to each insect and to every plant in the ocean at the right time ... rivers and in rain it gathers up by ceaseless lixiviation food for the creatures that wait upon it . It carries off ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 279 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
الصفحة 19 - THERE is a river in the ocean : in the severest droughts it> color. it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm ; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.
الصفحة 279 - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
الصفحة 279 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
الصفحة 78 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
الصفحة 279 - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, "We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
الصفحة 50 - Every west wind that blows crosses the stream on its way to Europe, and carries with it a portion of this heat to temper there the northern winds of winter. It is the influence of this stream upon climate that makes Erin the
الصفحة 348 - ... the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic, and partly to the different positions in which a spectator is placed in different zones of the globe.
الصفحة 13 - Softer than the finest down — more impalpable than the finest gossamer, — it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight.
الصفحة 334 - ... is from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea^ like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and we may readily imagine that the "sunless wrecks...