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The corn was on the low-grounds of a creek, where the cuckleburrs and spanish needles were as high or higher
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River low-grounds, with the cultivation of small grain, will never be exhausted; because we know, that, under that condition, we must now and then take them down with Indian corn, or they become, as they were originally, too rich to bring wheat.
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Occasionally on the broad low-grounds of the Roanoke, wheat is grown to a considerable extent.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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On my first excursion to some meadows and wooded low-grounds south of
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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On the low-grounds of the lower Cape Fear rice has long been the staple crop, and during recent years its culture has been extended northward along the low lying lands of the rivers and sounds.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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General Johnston posted his army between Richmond and the Chickahominy river, the 47th regiment being on the left, not far from Meadow bridge, and in the pestilential low-grounds of that sluggish stream.
Reminiscences of a Rebel Wayland Fuller Dunaway 1878
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Page 22 is shown by the effect of the ashes produced by the burning of log and brush heaps in our rich low-grounds.
An Agricultural Catechism; Or, The Chemistry of Farming Made Easy. A Textbook for the Common Schools in North Carolina. By a Teacher Benjamin Franklin 1867
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In no possible case, in the present condition of the earth, could the rivers have risen high enough to overflow and deposite transported mud on their "second low-grounds," or higher terraces of the tide-waters.
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The "second low-grounds," or the broad higher terraces of the principal rivers, where passing through the drift region, possess, for each river, much uniformity of agricultural qualities and character.
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The higher terrace, or "second low-grounds," is commonly and erroneously called alluvial land, and its unequal formation ascribed to alluvial agency.
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