tide-water

• “At the head of tide-water on the river there is a dam, and above it is a large mill-pond, where most of the people who row and sail keep their boats all summer long.”

  Nature & Environment

• “Much of the timber was cut so that it would fall almost into tide-water.”

  The School Book of Forestry

• “Leaving the frontier of Missouri in May, 1843, and often diverging from his route for the sake of expanding his field of observation, he had arrived in the tide-water region of Columbia in the month of”

  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself

• “In about three years, in addition to the canal connecting Lake Erie with tide-water in the Hudson, another will be excavated across the southern dividing ridge, to communicate with the Ohio.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829

• “When we leave the tide-water rivers for the interior navigable streams,”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “But Virginia is divided into four geographical sections; the tide-water, the Piedmont (running from the tide-water region to the Blue Mountains), the valley between these mountains and the Alleghanies, and the trans-Alleghany to the Ohio.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “The five great parallel tide-water rivers of Virginia, the Potomac, the”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “This vastly superior coast line of Virginia, with better, deeper, more capacious, and much more numerous harbors, unobstructed by ice, and with easy access for so many hundred miles by navigable bays and tide-water rivers leading so far into the interior, gives to Virginia great advantages over Pennsylvania in commerce and every branch of industry.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “In America there is abundant evidence of the same kind; throughout the recent marine deposits of the Temperate Zone, covering the low lands above tide-water on this continent, are found fossil Shells whose present home is on the shores of Greenland.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863

• “_ But I can't find any place over ten feet above tide-water, and no hill over six feet high.”

  Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

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