Litchfield, Isaac W, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Society of Arts · Boston, Mass. : The Society · leaf 123
Science Conspectus 111 ually filling up the lake, and has already dying-out ranges of the Jura mountains to the left. grown northward some fifteen miles, pro- ducing ideal farm land. Though the Rhine river itself is a The shores of the lake are low, comparatively late development in geo- logic… … Fig. 3. The general succession of strata in the Rhine valley and its eastward continuation to Vienna; so that the lines "Girt round with rugged mountains The fair Lake Constance lies" ftW'A v^.s C <osV* can scarcely, even through the courtesy of poetic license, be applied to the region. iVt its…
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