 The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient to let the stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling about us, so there was little time to do more here than to measure the size of the stream. Measured by a chain, the mean breadth was 27 feet.  Annals of Philosophy - Page 861822Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1819 - 514 pages
...Shaster; the Ganges flows. Captain Hodgson thinks that the appellation of Cow's mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary débouche. The height of the...stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do more than to measure the size of the stream ; the mean... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 614 pages
...curious wall of snow, and immediately above the outlet of the stream, large ami hoary icicles depended. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient...stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do more than to measure the size of the stream ; the main... | |
 | Asia - 1819 - 736 pages
...Capt. Hodgson thinks that the appellation of Cow's-mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary deL-wM. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient...stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do more than to measure the size of the stream ; the mean... | |
 | Asia - 1819 - 814 pages
...Hodgson thinks that the appellation of Cow'g-mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary débouché. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient...stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do moi« than to measuie the size of the stream ; the mean... | |
 | 1819 - 728 pages
...Hodgson thinks that the appellation of the Cow's mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary debouchee. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient to let the stream flow under ii. Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do mure than to measure... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...thinks that the appellation of the Cow's mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary débouchée. Tne height of the arch of snow is only sufficient to let the stream flow under iu_ Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was litt! time to do more than to measure the... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...Hodgson thinks that the appellation of the Cow's mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary débouchée. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient to let the stream ilow und« it-» [April Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time todo more... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 728 pages
...Cow's mouth is aptly given to this extraordinary debouchee. The height of the arch of snow is oidy sufficient to let the stream flow under it. Blocks of snow were falling on all (ides, and there was little lime lo do more than to measure the size of the stream ; the main... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...curious wall of snow, and immediately above the outlet of the stream, large and hoary icicles depended. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient to let the stream flow under it.—Blocks of snow were falling on all sides, and there was little time to do more than to measure... | |
 | Agriculture - 1822 - 526 pages
...to which they might more aptly give the name of a Cow's Mouth than to this extraordinary Debouche. The height of the arch of snow is only sufficient...of snow were falling about us, so there was little time-to do more here than to measure the size of the stream. Measured by a chain, the mean breadth... | |
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