intervals

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Sometimes wide meadows and intervales extended along the river,--and at other places, high hills, covered with trees, advanced close to the stream.

From Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont by Abbott, Jacob

All the valley below was inundated by a lake of level mist, whose subtle wave made islands of the hills, and shining inlets of the intervales.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

In a stream-bed of intervales and broad levels the Enchanted drive would have been scattered to its own disaster.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

Below her a river of early sunshine was flowing through the garden, and the far-away slopes were translucent green in their splendour of young day, with gauzy, uncertain mists lingering, spiritlike, in their intervales.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The term "bottom" is used throughout the West, to denote the alluvial soil on the margin of rivers, usually called "intervales," in New England.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason