Water Supply of South Africa: And Facilities for the Storage of itOliver & Boyd, 1877 - 651 Seiten |
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abundant acres agricultural appears atmosphere average banks Beaufort Bredasdorp Bushmanland Cape Capetown cattle Civil Commissioner clouds Colony consequence considerable construction course crops cultivation dams degs depth district division drought east embankment erven evaporation extent fall farmers farms favourable feet Fish River flood flow formed Fort Beaufort Fraserburg gallons Graaff-Reinet grain grass ground horses humidity inches increased inhabitants irrigation Karroo Kloof labour land means moisture months Mossel Bay mountain muids Namaqualand natives oats observations obtained Olifant's River Orange River Oudtshoorn pasturage Poort Port Elizabeth portion present produce proprietors quantity of water rain fell rainfall range regard reported reservoir road running rust sand season sheep soil South Africa springs square miles stream suffered sufficient supply of water surface Table Mountain temperature tion town trees Tulbagh Uitenhage valley vapour vegetation village water supply wheat whole wind yield Zwartkops
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Seite 164 - waters. . . . And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And God called the firmament Heaven. And God said, Let the waters under
Seite 30 - mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain ! Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night,
Seite 30 - ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations : we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to
Seite 45 - A multitude of dense, white fleecy clouds, Were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains, Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind,' " At other times they are blended with the sky itself, felt only here and there by a ray of light calling them into existence out of its misty shade, as in the Mercury and Argus ; sometimes,
Seite 30 - upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accident, too common and too
Seite 159 - Betty's joints are on the rack : Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are seeming nigh ; How restless are the snorting swine; The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; The cricket, too, how sharp he sings
Seite 636 - Reboisement in France; or, Records of the re-planting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with trees, herbage, and bush, with a view to arresting and preventing the
Seite 164 - into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering of the waters called he Seas.
Seite 44 - of forms Scattered through half the circle of the sky; And giving back, and shedding each on each, With prodigal communion, the bright hues Which, from the unapparent fount of glory, They had imbibed, and ceased not to receive. That which the heavens displayed the liquid deep