alluvion
Example Sentences
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The American bottom adjacent to the Mississippi is rich alluvion, and divided into timber and prairie.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
Further down, abrupt cliffs and overhanging precipices are frequently seen at the termination of the river alluvion.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
The changes of property in Bengal, by alluvion, are equally attended to.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Rich alluvion along the Mississippi, with much excellent table land,—both timber and prairie interior.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
But it may be alledged, that those sand banks are increasing still with the alluvion of Germany, instead of being in a decreasing state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James
