Water Supply Of South Africa And Facilities For The Storage Of It Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Water Supply of South Africa and Facilities for the Storage of It In a volume entitled Hydrology of South Africa or, Details of the former hydrographic condition of the Cape of Good Hope, and of causes of its present aridity, with suggestions of appropriate remedies for this I have, in treating of the former hydrographic condition of South Africa, cited testimony in regard to this, supplied by the physical geography of South Africa, and testimony in regard to the former geographical condition of South Africa supplied by geological observations, and indications of the former hydrographic condition of the country supplied by arborescent productions found in the interior of South Africa. And in regard to the hydrographic condition of the country within the historic period, I have cited observations made by Moffat, by Livingston, and by Chapman, and conclusions drawn by Fox Wilson in regard to the progress of desiccation; and shown that, in regard to the former hydrographic condition bf the country, we have indications of a progressive desiccation having gone on continuously from the last emergence of the land from beneath the ocean up to the present'day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.