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–210.01+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 633d: (of raindrops) 'More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the tricling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream gaining strength, proceeds in its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and entrench itself in permanent occupation'
–215.11+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 634c: 'talweg, a word introduced from the German into French and English, and meaning the deepest line along the valley, which is necessarily occupied by a stream unless the valley is dry' (German Talweg: valley way)
–440.35+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XI, 'Geography', 620c: (of geographical theory) 'While the theory of the sphere was being elaborated the efforts of practical geographers were steadily directed towards ascertaining the outline and configuration of the oekumene, or habitable world, the only portion of the terrestrial surface known to the ancients and to the medieval peoples, and still retaining a shadow of its old monopoly of geographical attention in its modern name of the "Old World"'



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