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Mais si nous avons eu le froid et la neige, l'Andalousie n'a pas ete epargnee par la tempete, et les inondations y sont terribles. Je termine en vous priant de croire aux sentiments bien sinceres de Votre affectionne, During the preceding autumn the state of Ireland had been exceptionally bad.
MARDIGNY, Memoire sur les Inondations des Rivieres de l'Ardeche, p. 26. The same observation may be applied to the tributaries of the Po, their floods being generally successive, not contemporaneous. The swelling of the affluents of the Amazon, and indeed of most large rivers, is regulated by a similar law. See Messedaglia, Analisi dell' opera di Champion, etc., p. 103.
Infinite darkness above and beyond; but the lantern-beams danced far out over an unbroken circle of heaving and swirling black water. Stealthily, swiftly, the measureless sea-flood was rising. "Messieurs mesdames, ce n'est rien. Nothing serious, ladies, I assure you ... Mais nous en avons vu bien souvent, les inondations comme celle-ci; ca passe vite!
The month of May, 1856, was remarkable for violent and almost uninterrupted rains, and most of the river-basins of France were inundated to an extraordinary height. Champion, Les Inondations en France, iv., p. 124. Several smaller floods of the Rhone, experienced at a somewhat earlier season of the year in 1846, occasioned a loss of forty-five millions of francs.
The greatest depth of the basin of the Ardeche is seventy-five miles, but most of its tributaries have a much shorter course. Coaz, die Hochwasser im 1868, p. 54. Memoire sur les Inondations des Rivieres de l'Ardeche, p. 16. "The terrific roar, the thunder of the raging torrents proceeds principally from the stones which are rolled along in the bed of the stream.
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