This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...sea. Guided by the smallest and least important local accident at or near their origin, they sometimes go in one direction and sometimes in another; always, however, carrying down with them enormous quantities of sand and gravel, besides blocks of stone and boulders, varying according to the circumstances of the case. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...sea. Guided by the smallest and least important local accident at or near their origin, they sometimes go in one direction and sometimes in another; always, however, carrying down with them enormous quantities of sand and gravel, besides blocks of stone and boulders, varying according to the circumstances of the case. In the course of time, the rain falling over a district thus cuts out for itself, and partly fills up, numerous channels, any one of which would be far more than sufficient, if there were an average steady current, but which are all barely enough to carry off its waters when swollen by any unusual circumstance. The sand, gravel, boulders, and other material brought down, are found in many cases to form a wide irregular channel, or dry bed, through some part of which the stream, if any, always flows; and when, as is often the case, the direction is strictly limited by lofty and almost vertical walls of rock, the whole intervening space at the bottom of such a gorge (or barranca) is occupied by alluvial matter, and affords the only passage from one part of the country to another, not only for the water, but the inhabitants. A river-channel of this kind, either permanently dry from the entire removal of the water to another direction or its entire re-evaporation; or occasionally dry, and generally capable of being traversed as a road, is a true Spanish Rambla: --the fashionable walk in some large cities, as Barcelona, where the ground has been raised, and the stream permanently directed into another course; the true and constant river-course over many plains; the actual and only road in many mountain tracts; and the sandy or gravelly path almost always, fully answering to the Arabic origin of the term. When dry, no road is better marked, and none ..
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