alluvion

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The alluvial soil is, of course level, and the swamps, which are only inundated alluvions, are dead flats.

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The soil in the river valley is a rich black alluvion.

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The parishes north of lake Pontchartrain, which formerly made a part of Florida, with the exception of some few tracts, and the alluvions of Pearl river and Bogue Chitte, have a sterile soil.

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The Pacific and Atlantic coast strips, even the great but bleak valley of the St. Lawrence, are mere incidents of territorial unity and political control when compared with the great alluvion of the Mississippi.

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Frugality is an old fashioned virtue that is deeply covered with the alluvion of modern extravagance.

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