 | Alexander Buchan - 1868 - 432 páginas
...428. To this general rule there are, however, several noteworthy exceptions. Thus, it is about 4000 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the Himalayas, owing (1) to the greater depth of snow which falls on the south side ; (2) to the greater... | |
 | Alexander Buchan - 1871 - 260 páginas
...rapidity. To this general rule there are, however, several noteworthy exceptions. Thus, it is about 4000 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the Himalayas, owing (1) to the greater depth of snow which falls on the south Sulitelma, Sweden, Kamtchatka,... | |
 | John Macturk - 1873 - 180 páginas
...humidity of the climate, and other causes, so that no general rule can be laid down. But it is about 4000 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the Himalayas, owing chiefly, on the one hand, to the great dryness of the vast table-lands of Central... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1864 - 582 páginas
...shingle, driven up the estuary by NE winds, and a general southern movement now prevails. The beach is 5 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the groyne, with those winds. In front of Heacham Park, between the shingle ' fulls ' and the fallow, there is... | |
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Hastings the formations are as much as 200 feet higher on the north than on the south side of the river, whereas at Nininger, which is three miles to the northwest, they are higher south of the river. 