alluvial

• The lands composed of rich alluvial, deposited by the turbid waters of the Mississippi, and protected by embankments termed "levees," ungratefully thrown up to keep out the very cause to which the country owed its existence. —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
• The lands upon the banks of this stream are remarkably fertile, entirely alluvial, and decline from the bank to the swamp, generally some one or two miles distant. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
• An alluvial island, with a heavy forest, exists at the point of its confluence with the Mississippi River. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• It was studded with islands which, like the alluvial bottoms, were covered with groves of cotton-wood, thickets of willow, tracts of good lowland grass, and abundance of green rushes. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• The banks were generally alluvial, and thickly grown with cottonwood trees, intermingled occasionally with ash and plum trees. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

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