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These two harbours furnish moreover, by the numerous streams and creeks that disembogue into them, most excellent means of communication with the interior.

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Disembogue, dis-em-bōg′, v.t. and v.i. to discharge at the mouth, as a stream.—n.

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"It hath been held for infallible that whatsoever ship or boat shall fall therein can never disembogue again by reason of the violent current which setteth into the said bay, as also for that the breeze and easterly wind bloweth directly into the same."

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Taking its source at Allooli, the highest point of the Gollo range, this torrent strives to disembogue into the extremity of the lake, although its waters seldom arrive so far, save during the rainy season.

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A previous blast foretells the rising storm; O’erwhelming turrets threaten ere they fall; 219 Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue; Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour; And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire: Ruin from man is most conceal’d when near, And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow.

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