"Sea level" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... above sea level; the climate is mild and equable. The twenty-five acre site, by a large bathing pond, includes one of the finest orchards in India-five hundred fruit trees-mango, guava, litchi, jackfruit, date. The boys grow their own vegetables, and spin ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... opposite direction—southwards,—through an extensive plain, until it empties itself by some 20 mouths into the Manila Bay. The whole of the Pampanga Valley and the course of the river present a beautiful panorama from the summit of Arayat Mountain, which has an elevation of 2,877 feet above the sea level. ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... of course, such as the average rain-fall, distance from the equator, the elevation above the sea level in the various mountain systems of vegetation, etc., including the hygrometric, thermometric, telluric, and other conditions, of the several localities in which the different species of ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright
... and lagoons, which lie below the sea level, are called polders. These were originally charged with water, and merely shutting out the sea was only half the battle. As in Ireland, the principal fuel of the people is peat, or turf, ten million tons of which are annually ...
— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic
... in order to cook food by boiling, at the top of a high mountain, you must employ a different method from that used at the sea level. ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
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