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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. BELIEF OF THE CONTINENTS. Recapitulation?Vertical dimensions or form of relief?Difficulties presented by their study?Usefulness of profile ? Great influence of differences of height?Elevations in mais, and linear elevations?Importance of the former?Labors of Humboldt and Hitter on this subject?Examination of the general features of relief of the continents?A great common law embracing them all. The conclusion of the preceding chapter was devoted to a simple examination of the most prominent forms which the; continents present to us, and such as the line of contact of the lands with the horizontal surface of the oceans exhibits to the eye. In this first review we have followed, step by step, in their discoveries, the men of science who were the first to point them out. We have recognized, with Bacon and Forster, the tapering form of the southern points of the continents, their gulfs on the west, and their islands on the east; with Pallas, the situation of the great plains in the north of the Old World, and the east of the New; with Humboldt, the winding forms and parallel shores of the great oceanic valley bearing the name of the Atlantic; with Steffens, the enlargement of all the lands toward the north, and the characteristic grouping of the continents in three double worlds. Hitter, finally, lias shown us how almost all the lands are combined in one hemisphere, which may be contrasted as a continental hemisphere with the other, which is almost entirely covered with water; how the lands, in their turn, are grouped in two principal masses, in two worlds, the Old and the New, differing in extent, in forms of contour, in structure, and in direction. This learned man, above all, teaches us to consider the forms of the continents in a light entirely new, by drawing...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217627405 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217627404 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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