"Catchment basin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tribal or racial elements. The transference of a whole people from its native or adopted seat to a new habitat, as in the Voelkerwanderungen, empties the original district, which then becomes a catchment basin for various streams of people about its rim; and in the new territory it dislodges a few or all of the occupants, and thereby starts up a fresh movement as the original one ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple |
