lake-basin

The sway the tribes of the table-land and interior lake-basin held over many of their neighbours appeared to him

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Every year, when the rains fall in the great lake-basin of Central Africa, from which one branch of the great river comes, and on the Abyssinian hills, where the other branch rises, the Nile comes down in flood.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

In making the trip down the Big Tuolumne Canyon, animals may be led as far as a small, grassy, forested lake-basin that lies below the crossing of the Virginia Creek trail.

The Yosemite John Muir 1876

At the lake-basin the Collector, after he had surveyed his hay-meadow, went around it to the inlet of the lake with his brown pair of attendants to try their luck, while I botanized in the delightful flora which called to mind the cool sphagnum and carex bogs of Wisconsin and Canada.

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

Near the village of Steinheim, in Würtemberg, there is an ancient lake-basin, dating from Tertiary times.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

And suppose a place like this, away from the towns, where God's beautiful water is coming down in a hurry, with a cry of power in every leap, -- where there is a great lake-basin full of material for work, just stored away against men's need for their earning and their building, -- suppose this place taken and used for the giving of

The Other Girls 1865

Laguna, "and its great area and depth of fertile soil are the result of an ancient lake-basin.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919