There, the water which falls in Winter passes into the soil, and is drained off as it falls; while here, the snow accumulates to a great depth, and in thawing floods the land at once.
Below the surface of the ground there is a body of stagnant water, sometimes at a great depth, but in retentive soils usually within a foot or two of the surface.
Such a ravine, of great depth, occurred just below Kardong.
The greater permanence of snow in valleys and ravines than on mountain slopes seems to be due to its accumulation there during the winter to a great depth by avalanches from both sides.
On the latter part of the day, these were universal in all the ravines, and were frequently of great depth, and so soft as to be difficult to cross: on the least deviation from the beaten path, I sank to the middle at every step.
This plant grows on every rock from low-water mark to a great depth, both on the outer coast and within the channels.
The same acute observer remarked, that water in the fissures and pores of glaciers cannot, and does not part with its latent heat, so as to freeze every night to a great depth, or far in the interior of the mass.
On the other hand, the creeps in coal mines[254] demonstrate that gravitation begins to act as soon as a moderate quantity of matter is removed even at a great depth.
The Riuer was of great depth, and of a strong current: the water was alwaies muddie: there came downe the Riuer continually many trees and timber, which the force of the water and streame brought downe.
The jungle and country precisely the same as that round Shikarpore, road at first bad, but subsequently good enough: water is to be had very good: at no great depth.
The appearance of the water is characteristic, of a greyish green tinge, giving the impression of great depth.
It has the appearance of great depth, and roars along amidst rocks in some places in fine style.
His defences, disposed in great depth, were strengthened by large numbers of machine-guns cunningly placed for mutual support in sunken roads and shell holes.
On so vast a frontage a defence by continuous trench lines was clearly out of the question, and the British defence was designed to be in great depth.
There is one place in this system of underground channels where the dripping from the roof of the upper channels has cut a great well hole many feet in diameter perpendicularly down through the whole system to a great depth.
If his works and judgments be a great depth, and unsearchable, sure his decrees are far more unsearchable, for it is the secret and hidden purpose of God, which is the very depth of his way and judgment.
In a short time, however, a noble sheet of water was reached, surrounded by lofty hills, and of great depth.
It is not in any sense a dividing ridge, being cut by all the streams in the country, and in particular to a great depth by the St. John and the Aroostook.
The tableland is cut to a great depth by that stream, and from its bed the broken edges of the great plain look like ridges whose height is exaggerated to the senses in consequence of their being densely clothed with wood.
We crossed the “divide” by a narrow depression, as far as we can judge, of no great depth.
It is slightly alkaline; but good, pure water has been obtained from wells at no great depth.
My son found 91 leaves which had been dragged by worms into their burrows, though not to a great depth; of these 66 per cent.
Yet worms do not burrow to a great depth, except when the weather is very dry or intensely cold.
The walls themselves, whenever their foundations do not lie at a great depth, have been penetrated and undermined by worms, and have consequently subsided.
Beds of coal lying underneath this rocky hill, perhaps at a great depth, have been burning for centuries, and the same phenomenon is repeated elsewhere in the district.
There are prodigious layers of these bones lying at a great depth in the rock, where there is no cavern to suggest that the animals entered by it, or that they were taken there by man.
The water of this fountain, which derives its name from Polemius, a Roman functionary, is of limpid purity, and its constancy proves that it rises from a great depth.
The salt itself, prime necessity as it is, has there to be extracted by condensation from saline springs of great depth, a very difficult affair.
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