10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECLIVITIES»
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declivities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
declivities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
western flanks, which he instances in the Swedish and Norwegian mountains,
the Alps, the Caucasian, the Appenine and Ouralian mountains; but the
declivities bearing a southern or northern aspect he does not mention. LA
METHERIE, in ...
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Ancient Geography: As Connected with Chronology, and ...
128. A declivity is a tract of land gradually descending from the highlands to the
lowlands. 129. The highlands, lowlands, and declivities, form the/ace of a country
, and often have much influence on its climate and fertility. .. • 130. Rivers usually
...
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
Declivities, that nature in the formation of such declivities had any regard to
different aspects or points of the compass, seems to have been first remarked by
the celebrated Swedish Geologist Mr. Tilas, Science, VIII, 36-37. the discovery,
that ...
Royal Irish Academy, 1813
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A System of Universal Geography: On the Principles of ...
The highlands, lowlands, and declivities, form the face of a country, and often
have mu- . influence on its climate and fertility. 130. Rivers usually descer i by the
shortest course, from the highest to the lowest parts oi a country. They sometimes
...
William Channing Woodbridge, 1827
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A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of ...
The highlands, lowlands, and declivities, form they*ace of a country, and often
have much influence on its climate and fertility. 130. Rivers usually descend by
the shortest course, from the highest to the lowest parts of a country.
William Channing Woodbridge, 1838
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Woodbridge and Willard's Universal Geography ...: ...
The highlands, lowlands, and declivities, form the face of a country, and often
have mnch influence on its climate and fertility. 130. Rivers usually descend by
the shortest course, from the highest to the lowest parts of a country. They
sometimeg ...
William Channing Woodbridge, Emma Willard, 1836
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
Declivities, that nature in the formation of such declivities had any regard to
different aspects or points of the compass, seems to have been first remarked by
the celebrated Swedish Geologist Mr. Tilas, Science, VIII, 36-37. the discovery,
that ...
Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), 1813
8
Essays on the Theory of the Earth
In the Upper Hartz, the most common inclination of the declivities of the
mountains is twenty-five degrees ; nor does it usually exceed thirty-three, at
which inclination the beech and spruce grow. The greatest declivities at which
ground can be ...
Georges baron Cuvier, 1827
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Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the ...
The region of olives extends from the shores of the Mediterranean, from the
eastern declivities of the Pyrenees, the southern of the Cevennes, and the
western of the Lower Alps. It is bounded on the north by a line which,
commencing at ...
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Universal Geography: Containing the description of Spain, ...
The Cantabrian or Cantiberian is formed by the northern declivities of the
Pyrenees, from the sources of the Adour to Cape Ortegal ; the Lusitanian or the
second consists of the southern declivities of the Pyrenees and other heights,
watered by ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECLIVITIES»
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declivities is used in the context of the following news items.
Walks: The Big Gun is a blast on the Reeks Ridge, Co Kerry
Here is your first view of the difficulties ahead – the knee-knocking rock-blade ridge with great declivities on either side that leads to the ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Antony Gormley on His Epic “Human” Exhibition in Florence
Here, the turrets and the small tower over the well court, the batteries and the entrance to the lower part of the Palazzina are all declivities. «Artinfo UK, Apr 15»
A pair of Northwest masters at Sisko Gallery
In other cases — as in “All Through the Night,” with its bruise-dark towering mountainlike declivities — it's something lurid and ominous. «The Seattle Times, Mar 15»
California's Travis Ganong wins downhill silver at world …
Starting more than 11,000 feet above sea level, it sends racers at speeds reaching the 80s down a steep pitch full of knolls and declivities. «New York Daily News, Feb 15»
Art review: 'Man Ray — Human Equations: A Journey From …
To Man Ray, they had an appealing weirdness, suggesting biomorphic and human forms, curious saddles and declivities, bulging cones and at ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
Go Walk: Arderin, Slieve Bloom Mountains, Co Laois
The drive is breathtaking with great declivities tumbling below, leaving me in no doubt as to why Glendine means deep glen. Reaching the ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
Wild, Hauschildt top Phuket
Kevin Collington started to skid on one of the precipitous declivities and while his rear wheel slid out, Luke Bell ran up on him and both went ... «Slowtwitch, Nov 14»
An Essex skatepark is being listed, so what next? Here are a few ideas
I don't dare hazard my own description of its curves and declivities – but it is strangely beautiful. Best of all, it's a fine marriage of form and ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Is MH370 in newly discovered …
... not to mention the some of the lowest declivities ever recorded, the actual body of the missing plane, which is thought to have remained intact ... «Examiner.com, Oct 14»
Laurie Lee: As I walked out one Midsummer morning
Mounds, curves, thickets, hollows and declivities sprawl in the sun. To his followers, Laurie ("Lee" always sounds absurdly, officiously wrong) ... «The Independent, Jun 14»
