The instances are few, where a second civilization has flourished upon the ruins of an ancient culture, and lands once rendered uninhabitable by human acts or neglect have generally been forever abandoned as hopelessly irreclaimable.
Humboldt visited the country more than forty years after this occurrence, and was informed by the Indians, that when they returned, long after the catastrophe, to the plain, they found the ground uninhabitable from the excessive heat.
If the once populous Campagna of Rome be now uninhabitable from malaria, what must it have been in Paul Warnefrid's time?
In the first place, as the climate renders Northern Siberia almost uninhabitable for mammals at the present day, how much more severe must it have been during the time of the maximum glaciation in Europe.
Geikie--one of our highest authorities on this subject--a great part of Northern Europe became practically uninhabitable owing to the severity of the climate.
That the whole of Northern Europe should have been made uninhabitable owing to the advance of the Scandinavian ice-sheet, while North Siberia at the same time supported forests, meadows, and a temperate fauna, is incredible.
And, as I remarked before, his conclusions are somewhat marred by the unwarrantable assumption that our islands at no distant date were totally destitute of all plant-life, and were therefore uninhabitable by animals.
Much of the country situated upon its forks is said to be possessed of a good soil, but is rendered uninhabitable for want of timber and water.
In regard to this extensive section of country, I do not hesitate in giving the opinion, that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of courseuninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.
Thus is this vast body of water, all originating in the Eastern or Blue Mountains, conveyed over these extensive marshes, rendering uninhabitable a tract which they might reasonably be expected to fertilize.
In both cases France has been made uninhabitable for them.
Not that it is their normal custom; it was merely to render the rooms uninhabitable for us who were to follow, and their special way of showing contempt and hatred for their foes.
Nor had the German soldier refrained from the last exhibit of his "Kultur," but left filthy evidences of his bestial habits behind him to ensure that the bedrooms would be uninhabitable by us.
Each emitted vapor for a time; but at length all the upheavals, save Jorullo, ceased action, though the plain remained so hot as to be uninhabitable for many years.
If the floods are unrestrained, a large portion of the river bottom becomes uninhabitable a considerable portion of each year.
But for the heat which this stream brings to the realm of the North Atlantic, Great Britain would be as sterile as Labrador, and the Scandinavian region, the cradle-land of our race, as uninhabitable as the bleakest parts of Siberia.
The wings of the majority of these butterflies are sombre-coloured; their caterpillars live upon the auriculas, and seem to accomplish their metamorphoses in regions uninhabitable to us.
The countries beyond this which border upon the regions uninhabitableon account of their cold, have no interest to the geographer.
Both of these divisions Posidonius justly condemns, for the torrid zone is properly the space rendered uninhabitable by the heat.
Beyond these Roxolani the country is uninhabitable on account of the severity of the climate.
These correct accounts were obstinately rejected by the speculative geographers of Alexandria, because they imagined a certainuninhabitable zone, into which India ought not to penetrate.
Countries north of this he considered to be altogether uninhabitable on account of their inclemency.
For even if there be there a habitable region, as some suppose, it forms a habitable earth to itself, a narrow slip enclosed by the regions uninhabitable on account of the heat; and can be no part of our habitable earth.
The scheme was ridiculed by persons who insisted that the region was not only wild and unexplored, but uninhabitable and worthless.
For surely you would not venture to assert that the Moon is uninhabitable by a race of beings having an organization different from ours?
And now the Moon is that, an uninhabitable world, anduninhabitable ages and ages ago!
Probably it runs half-way round the quadrangle at the back of the uninhabitable recesses.
And as each degree of a great circle on this planet contains more than 700 miles, it is natural to conceive, that vast tracts of land would be rendered uninhabitable by any considerable inclination of his axis.
The malarious tarai fringing the Himalayas, the uninhabitable swamps of the Gangetic delta, and the wide jungles of the central plateau are at present the chief home of the tiger.
This journey of Mitchell's was also instrumental in somewhat palliating the view held of the uninhabitable nature of the far interior; although the true character of the country had yet to be learnt and appreciated.
His first unprovoked attack on us, and the daring of his repeated charges after being wounded, showed that he was a vicious and formidable brute; and the forest would be uninhabitable until he had been slain or driven far away.
The Political Officer had asked that he might be allowed to reside in it; but, as on a previous occasion he and his followers had done so and left it in an absolutely uninhabitable state, this permission was now refused.
South of it was uninhabitable on account of the heat, and north of it all was frozen.
The two temperate or habitable zones seem, according to Mela, to coincide with the two masses of land, while the uninhabitable ones, the torrid and the two frigid zones, are continuous sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uninhabitable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
