Nadia (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Hugh Eliot Garrett

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332160689 ISBN 13 : 9781332160686

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Nadia

I suppose no one will hesitate to acknowledge that the whole of the country, including the Sunderban proper, lying between the Hooghly on the west and the Meghna on the east, is only the delta caused by the deposition of the débris carried down by the rivers Gauges and Brahmaputra, and their tributaries. It is also equally well known that in such Hate the streams are constantly altering their courses, eating away on one bank and depositing on the other, until the channel in which they formerly flowed becomes choked up, and the water is compelled to seek another course. It is also certain that in this peculiar delta the general course of the main waters of the Ganges has gradually tracked from the west towards the east, until of late years the larger body of the waters of the Ganges have united with those of_the Brahmaputra and have together proceeded to the sea as the Meghna. Every stream, whether large or small, flowing through such a flat, tends to raise its own bed or channel by the deposition of the Silt and sand it holds suspended in its waters, and by this gradual deposi tion the channel bed of the streams is raised above the actual level of the adjoining Hate. It is impossible to suppose a river con tinning to flow along the top of a raised bank, if not compelled to do so by artificial means, and the consequence of this filling in and raising of its bed is that, at the first opportunity, the stream necessarily abandons its original course, and seeks a new channel in the lower ground adjoining, until after successive changes it has gradually wandered over the whole flat and raised the entire surface to the same general level. The same process is then repeated, new channels are cut out, and new deposits formed.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332160689
• ISBN 13: 9781332160686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 213
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