| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...twenty rivers are • discharged into it without any vis• ilile outlet. It is at about the dis. .tauce of six leagues from, the sea, and the space which...is the more difficult to account for its having no vjsible passage for discharge, as it receives rivers on all sides, which proves it to be a perfect... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...in a valley surrounded with mountains, excepting on the west, where it extends into the intérieur part of the country. The waters of twenty rivers are...basin. But, then, how should it have remained the мте without increase or diminution of water for so many ages ? would evaporation alone, great as... | |
| François Raymond J. de Pons - 1807 - 572 pages
...of the country. The waters of twenty rivers are discharged into it without any visible outlet. It is six leagues from the sea, and the space which separates...inaccessible mountains. It is the more difficult to a< count for its having no visible passage for discharge, as it receives rivers on all sides, which... | |
| Edinburgh gazetteer - Atlases - 1822 - 846 pages
...of the country. The waters of twenty riven are discharged into it without any visible outlet. It is six leagues from the sea, and the space which separates...visible passage for discharge, as it receives rivers on «!' sides, which proves it to be a perfect basin. This lake has been diminishing for twenty years... | |
| Edinburgh gazetteer - Atlases - 1822 - 844 pages
...visite cutlet. It is six leagues from the sea, >'• the space which separates them is filled witl inaccessible mountains. It is the more difficult to account for its having no visible pesage for discharge, as it receives rivers on : sides, which proves it to be a perfect Ы?.: This... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...excepting on the west. The waters of twenty rivers are discharged into it without any visible outlet. It is the more difficult to account for its having...sides, which proves it to be a perfect basin. But this lake has been diminishing for twenty years. VALENCIENNES, a fortified town of French Flanders,... | |
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