alluvion
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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 John Mason Peck
Except at the season of floods, it is not navigable; but the alluvion through which it flows is very productive, while the pine forest immediately to the west is sterile.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
The soil is generally good, as that made by the decay of forests for thousands of years upon substrata, chiefly formed of alluvion or diluvion, the deposit from waters, must be.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
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