The scene was a beautiful valley in China, peopled with a city of a half million . . . Down the mountain at one side had been slashed a strip in which was a wooden trough, or flume, such as is used for sliding logs down a declivity.
42.
The total rise of the ground, from the Troon Harbour to Kilmarnock, is 80 or 84 feet, which is equally divided over the whole course of the road, so as to form it into an inclined plane, having a declivity of nearly eight feet, every mile.
43.
The soil is thin and poor, but, in some of the lower grounds, not altogether unproductive; the declivities of the hills afford only a scanty pasturage for sheep and young cattle : peat, which forms the principal fuel of the inhabitants, is found in various parts ."
44.
Pyroclastic flows generally consist of a base or " basal " flow of dense fragments that move along the ground at speeds up to 200 mph _ usually following natural declivities like rivers or valleys _ and a top layer of turbulent ash clouds that rise above the basal flow, usually called surges.
45.
Somewhat later, when the direction of attack by G�rahd's Corps became more developed, the battery of the 3rd Brigade was placed on the right of Ligny, near a quarry, and the battery of the 4th Brigade on the left of the village, upon the declivity descending to the rivulet.
46.
A waggon carries 30 cwt of coals and 3 waggons are linked together by chains; so that 1 horse draws 4?tons of coal at once; and the declivity of the way is so gentle that the same horse draws with ease the 3 empty waggons back to the coal-hill . ..
47.
"The soil in this limestone is excellent for both the tillage and pasture, being a brownish marly loam, of good tenacity in some places; in others, on a few degrees of declivity, light and somewhat sandy, so as to be occasionally damaged by the larvae of the cock-chaffer.
48.
Down a dirt trail, through an opening in the foliage, the falls came into full view : Its water ran white over a ledge of rock and down a 10-story declivity, a pall of foam seemingly still, hanging in the air, erupting in clouds of spray at the toes of the cliff.
49.
The building was on the declivity of rising ground, supported by a basement of stones, projecting out from below the lowest course of the building; it was so far from being upon a level area, that a great part of the basement, and four courses of the stones on the south side, were hidden in the earth.
50.
In 1828 the heath was again recorded as the site of a large gathering to debate Catholic Relief Act of 1829 . A detailed report of the assembly on 24 October 1828 by Richard Lalor Sheil describes the heath as a " gently sloping amphitheatrical declivity " and still, in the 19th century, the principal venue in the area for massing the populace.
