 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 964 pages
...chain of mountains, is less elevated, and sheds its waters, as is well known, clear on both sides ; on the one side into the Atlantic, and on the other into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. On both sides, the slopes are comparatively gentle, and the soil... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1857 - 586 pages
...chain of mountains, is less elevated, and sheds its waters, as is well known, clear on both sides ; on the one side into the Atlantic, and on the other into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. On both sides, the slopes are comparatively gentle, and the soil... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1865 - 398 pages
...defile below Perth. While the three main rivers resemble each other 1 Trans, Roy. Soc. Edin. iii. 268. in thus breaking through a chain of hills to find...the level of the Clyde that it would not cost much labour to send that river across into the Tweed. Indeed, some trouble is necessary to keep the former... | |
 | 1868 - 540 pages
...from which I could, if I chose, without rising from a sitting posture, dip up the water that flowed, on the one side into the Atlantic, and on the other into the Pacific Oceans— I was suddenly startled from my reverie by hearing some stones rattle down from the... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 328 pages
...could, if I felt disposed, without even rising from a sitting posture, dip up the water that flowed on the one side into the Atlantic, and on the other into the Pacific Oceans. Suddenly I was startled from my reverie by hearing some stones rattle down from the... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - 1876 - 322 pages
...Eoberton, it turns to the north-east along a broad valley that skirts the base of Tinto. The Clyde there approaches within seven miles of the Tweed. Between...the level of the Clyde that it would not cost much labour to send that river across into the Tweed. Indeed, some trouble is necessary to keep the former... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1887 - 526 pages
...lowlands of the Old Red Sandstone. A singular feature in this part of the Clyde's course is that it approaches within seven miles of the Tweed. Between...the level of the Clyde that it would not cost much labour to send that river across into the Tweed. Indeed, some trouble is necessary to keep the former... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1887 - 530 pages
...lowlands of the Old Red Sandstone. A singular feature in this part of the Clyde's course is that it approaches within seven miles of the Tweed. Between...the level of the Clyde that it would not cost much labour to send that river across into the Tweed. Indeed, some trouble is necessary to keep the former... | |
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Clyde approaches within seven miles of the Tweed. Between the two streams, of course, lies the watershed of the country, the drainage flowing on the one side into the Atlantic, and on the other into the North Sea. Yet, instead of a ridge or hill, the... 