 | Charles Tomlinson - Atmospheric electricity - 1848 - 306 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation carried on during the dry season, in their beds. " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...carried on during the dry season, in their beds."* The effect upon the sea is graphically depicted by Mr. Forbes: " At Anjengo," observes this author,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1855 - 610 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...beds. " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clean, and discovers the face of nature changed, as if by enchantment. Before the storm the fields... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields : the rivers are swollen and discolored, and sweep along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation carried on during the dry season in their beds." Sometimes the atniosnhere is so muddied by storms... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields : the rivers are swollen and discolored, and sweep along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation carried on during the dry season in their beds." Sometimes the atmosphere is so muddied by storms that... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - Geography - 1861 - 364 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields: the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of cultivation which was carried on, during the dry season, in their beds. " This lasts for some days,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Geography - 1862 - 432 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields : the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of cultivation which was carried on, during the dry season, in their beds. " This lasts for some days,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1874 - 502 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields: the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of cultivation which was carried on, during the dry season in their beds. "This lasts for some days, after... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...cultivation, which was carried on during the dry season, into their beds. This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature,... | |
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... and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation which was carried on, during the dry season, in their beds. 
