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. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...that we should travel more conveniently, and that we shonM enjoy many other advantages, if the earth was only a vast plain. But, perhaps, I am mistaken in this opinion. I wish then to inquire into it, and reflect on the use of mountains, in order to see, if I have reason to be discontented with the present ...
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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. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...that we should travel more conveniently, and that we shonM enjoy many other advantages, if the earth was only a vast plain. But, perhaps, I am mistaken in this opinion. I wish then to inquire into it, and reflect on the use of mountains, in order to see, if I have reason to be discontented with the present plan of our globe. In the first place, it is evident, that it is from the mountains and hills that the springs flow, vhich are produced either by heavy snows, or by by the clouds ivith which those heights are always covered. It is that which keeps up the course of great and small rivers. Those chains of high mountains which extend from east to west, and which traverse a great tract of country, serve to hinder the dispersion of vapours, and to condense them into water. They are so many stills, which prepare and render the water sweet for the use of man and beast. Their declivity gives a moderate fall to the springs, and from thence they flovv gently into the valleys, which they water and make fruitful. Besides this inestimable advantage of springs and fountains which the mountains procure us, they have many others. They serve for dwelling-s to several kinds of animals O useful to tts; they afford subsistence, without any trouble of ours, to multitudes of beasts, whose flesh and skins are very necessary to us. On the sides of mountains, there grow trees, plants, and an innumerable quantity of salutary herbs and roots, which are not cultivated with equal success in the plains, or have not the same virtues. It is in the bowels of the mountains that metals and minerals form themselves, which would not propagate so well in low and level countries, for want of necessary moisture. Mountains serve also to shelter us from blasts of the cold and cutting...
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