 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 608 pages
...rain and of the soil. Mr. Dickenson, the eminent paper-maker, who has several mills and a considerable landed estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced from a...to great confidence, that of an annual fall of '26 in. of rain, about 1 1 are filtered through a porous soil. The whole of this 1 1 inches (and probably... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 612 pages
...rain and of the soil. Mr. Dickenson, the eminent paper-maker, who has several mills and a considerable landed estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced from a...to great confidence, that of an annual fall of 26 in. of rain, about 1 1 are filtered through a porous soil. The whole of this 1 1 inches (and probably... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - Agriculture - 1854 - 666 pages
...of the soil. Mr. Dickeuson, the eminent paper-maker, who has several mills and a considerable lauded estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced from a series...discharge. The proportions in which each of these means will operate will vary in every case, but this will be an universal feature, that these 11 inches... | |
 | Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 pages
...rain and of the soil. Mr. Dickenson, the eminent paper-maker, who has several mills and a considerable landed estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced from a...entitled to great confidence, that of an annual fall of twenty-six inches of rain, about eleven are filtered through a porous soil. The whole of this eleven... | |
 | 1850 - 346 pages
...who has several mills and a considerable landed estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced from a scries of observations, which are, we believe, entitled to great confidence, that of an annual fall of 20 in. of rain, about 11 are filtered through a porous soil. The whole of this 11 inches (and probably... | |
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Ib. of water by filtration, no effect is produced beyond what is due to the relative temperatures of the rain and of the soil. Mr. Dickenson, the eminent paper-maker, who has several mills and a considerable landed estate in Hertfordshire, has deduced... 