 | John Milton Niles - 1825 - 518 σελίδες
...no traders or carriers ever venture to pass that way, nor it is presumed would any military leader lightly be induced to encounter its difficulties for...the Andes the inclination is so great, that all the livers flow with the rapidity of torrents, and are therefore not navigable. They serve to irrigate... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1848 - 494 σελίδες
...following, from the same pen, sketches Chili : " From the Cordilleras de los Andes to the Pacific, the inclination is so great that all the rivers flow...therefore not navigable. They serve to irrigate the valleys, and render them the most fertile in the world. The climate mokes this method of cultivation... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 490 σελίδες
...following, from the same pen, sketches Chili : " From the Cordilleras de los Andes to the Pacific, the inclination is so great that all the rivers flow...therefore not navigable. They serve to irrigate the valleys, and render them the most fertile in the world. The climate makes this method of cultivation... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 732 σελίδες
...traders or carriers ever venture to pass that way ; nor, it is presumed, would any military leader lightly be induced to encounter its difficulties for...purpose of carrying hostilities along that route into Chili. The desert of Atacama may, therefore, be considered as a great natural barrier, by which it... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 716 σελίδες
...traders or carriers ever venture to pass that way ; nor, it is presumed, would any military leader lightly be induced to encounter its difficulties for...purpose of carrying hostilities along that route into Chili. The desert of Atacama may, therefore, be considered asa great natural barrier, by which it is... | |
 | 1911 - 762 σελίδες
...encounter is difficulties, for the purpose of carrying hostilities along that route into Chili. The desert of Atacama may, therefore, be considered as a great...closed on that side against both commercial and hostile visitors. The great elevated boundary of Chili, the principal Cordillera of the Andes, is passable... | |
 | William Ray Manning - 1925 - 804 σελίδες
...being unsettled, and even unexplored, farther south. From the Cordilleras de los Andes to the Pacific, the inclination is so great, that all the rivers flow...therefore not navigable. They serve to irrigate the valleys, and render them the most fertile in the world. The climate makes this method of cultivation... | |
 | William Ray Manning - 1925 - 804 σελίδες
...no traders or carriers ever venture to pass that way; nor, it is presumed, would any military leader lightly be induced to encounter its difficulties for...purpose of carrying hostilities along that route into Chili. The desert of Atacama may, therefore, be considered as a great natural barrier, by which it... | |
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The desart of Atacama may, therefore, be considered as a great natural barrier, by which it is closed on that side against both commercial and hostile visiters. 