bottom-lands

On the dry high ground they could build their lodges underneath great trees and find themselves upon the highway of travel, while the rich bottom-lands gave them never-exhausted planting-ground for their fields of maize.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

In the bottom-lands of the Sacramento River is an island that for fifty years went a-begging.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The entire distance lies through low bottom-lands heavily timbered, and our course was drearily monotonous.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

There had been heavy rains, the river was rising, and the swamps and bottom-lands were fast becoming impassable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

In ploughing a field on the bottom-lands the nails, rudder-hangings, bow-ring and other irons of a boat were discovered, together with a heap of ashes: having been cast high and dry upon the shore by the waves, no doubt this batteau was burned to keep it from falling into the enemy's hands.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in the State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of new settlers.

The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890 Various

Soil and location: It grows naturally on low bottom-lands but will also do well in poor, dry soils.

Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

The stream is small, but the bottom-lands are extensive and rich.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

There was much sickness among the troops, and the fearful ravages of scurvy and the deadly malaria of the swamps and bottom-lands along the great river were enemies far more to be dreaded than the thunder of artillery, or the hurtling shells.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

The difficulties of that river, considered as a military obstacle, are given in a few touches; but in the sketch of the opposing heights, and of the intermediate valley, filled up with the stream, the heavily timbered swamp, and the overflowed bottom-lands, we have the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various