alluvion

• I doubt very much if Nature has created a finer country on the whole earth 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. —  Canada and the Canadians Volume I
• Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.' —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• The eastern shore is not less beautiful: a broad flat plain of rich alluvion, extending from the water's edge, is terminated by a range of wooded hills. —  Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
• It is one of the western Carolinas 19] In hydrography the name placeres is given to the layer of sand in stagnant water or alluvion which usually has particles of gold. —  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
• The vegetable productions of the present earth, however deep they may be found buried beneath its surface, and however ancient they may appear, compared with the records of our known times, are new, compared with the solid land on which they grew; and they are only covered with the produce of a vegetable soil, or the alluvion of the present land on which we dwell, and on which they had grown. —  Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)

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