A History of the Earth And Animated Nature: With Notes From the ..., volume 1
A History of the Earth And Animated Nature: With Notes From the ..., volume 1
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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By these means 8. Chiglli'lmini ddla Nature de Piumi, passim. it always has a tendency to render them more straight and parallel to its own counie. Thus it continues to rectify its banks and enlarge its bed ; and, consequently, to diminish the force of its stream, till there becomes an equi- librium between the force of the water, and the resistance of its banks, upon which both will remain without any farther mutation. And it is happy for man that bounds are thus put to the erosion of the eart...h by water ; and that we find all rivers only dig and widen them- selves but to a certain degree."* In those plains^ and large valleys where great rivers flow, the bed of the river is usu- ally lower than any part of the valley. But it often happens, that the surface of the water is higher than many of the grounds that are adjacent to the banks of the stream. If, after inundations, we take a view of some rivers, we shall find their banks appear above water at a time that all the adjacent valley is over- flowed.
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