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  • From the White the expedition moved toward the hot springs and saline confluents of the

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • That part of the Adriatic abounds in prejudices of blood, as do all countries which serve as confluents for every nation.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Danube, with numerous confluents which take their rise in the

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • Rivers, dividing the headwaters of their confluents; thence along the dividing ridge of tributaries confluent to the Sabine and other Texas streams from those of the Red, in a north-westerly course, to the Rocky

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • This she keenly resented, and the stream of her resentment, joining forces with its confluents the demoralisation of the Navy through pressing, the excessive cost of pressing and the antagonising effects of pressing upon the nation at large, contributed in no small degree to that final supersession of the press-gang which was in essence, if not in name, the beginning of Free Trade.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • Missouri and its tributaries drain the eastern portion, and the confluents of the Columbia the western.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Its southern and southeastern boundaries are the plateaus and mountains which form the northern watershed of the muddy Colorado River and its confluents.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • The second geological fact is that the Merced and Tenaya torrents sand-papered the deepening beds of these canyons day and night for several million years; which, when we remember the mile-deep canyons which the Colorado River and its confluents cut through a thousand or more miles of Utah and Arizona, is not beyond human credence, if not conception.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • Great Lakes, and down the valley of the Mississippi, with outposts on the Ohio and other important confluents.

    Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • Halifax county lies between the Roanoke river on the north, and Fishing creek, one of the confluents of the Tar river, on the south.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

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