Or did they Marvel at his Conversation with a Whore, for fear of his being tempted by her?
Such is the sylva that covers the alluvionof Louisiana.
The land is an alluvionof no very ancient formation.
The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower Valley.
Immediately on the banks of the Ohio and other large rivers are strips of rich alluvion soil.
Yet the first settlers invariably selected the rich alluvion lands upon the navigable rivers, in preference to the scarcely less fertile soil of the prairies, lying in situations less accessible, and more remote from market.
Rich alluvion along the Mississippi, with much excellent table land,--both timber and prairie interior.
They are both remarkable rivers for their extent, the number of their branches, the volume of their waters, the quantity of alluvion they carry down to the parent stream, and the color of their waters.
It stands on the land formed at the junction of the Monongahela and Alleghany rivers on a levelalluvion deposit, but entirely above the highest waters, surrounded with hills.
Along the waters of Gasconade and Black rivers the hills are frequently abrupt and rocky, with strips of rich alluvion along the water courses.
On all the streams are strips of richalluvion of exhaustless fertility.
For, if the alluvion takes place on the shore, the extent of the territorial maritime belt is now to be measured from the extended shore.
Alluvion is the name for an accession of land washed up on the sea-shore or on a river-bank by the waters.
From the deepalluvion along the river's verge rises an enormous growth of cottonwood-trees and sycamores, concealing the stream from the view.
On the western bank was spread out a broad sheet of alluvion five miles in breadth, completely inundated by the swollen stream.
The salubrious influence of the latter expedient upon the climate has, indeed, been satisfactorily tested during the ten or twelve years past; and this celebrated alluvion now bids fair, in time, to become the garden of North America.
Some parts of this region afford exceptions to the remark generally applicable to Arkansa territory, that the best soils are found in the alluvion of the rivers.
The alluvion of which the bottoms are composed contains a large proportion of sand, which, added to the nitrous and saline matter blended with it, occasions frequent appearances of complete barrenness.
The bottoms of the Wabash, Kaskaskias, Illinois, and Rock rivers, are also made up of a rich alluvion of sand and loam, containing a large proportion of vegetable mould.
The scene of that artistic activity made known to us by the oldest architectural remains of Africa and of the world was not Upper Egypt, where steep primeval cliffs narrow the valley of the Nile, but the alluvion of the river's delta.
The wines produced among the gravels and pebbles of the Medoc district near Bordeaux are much superior to the wines produced on the palus or alluvion lands between the two rivers Lot and Garonne in the same vicinity.
The wool produced on the poor South Down soils of Great Britain is far superior to the wool raised on the rich alluvion lands of Lincolnshire in that country.
The alluvion between these rivers, protected from inundation by levees along the streams, is divided by many bayous, of which the Tensas, with its branch the Macon, is the most important.
Except at the season of floods, it is not navigable; but the alluvion through which it flows is very productive, while the pine forest immediately to the west is sterile.
Frugality is an old fashioned virtue that is deeply covered with the alluvion of modern extravagance.
The landmarks of primitive Christianity are buried by the alluvion of human inventions.
As the alluvion is carried on, the slope of the stream will become steeper and steeper the higher one goes.
The new channels are made of a cross-section to enable the water to carry on its alluvion and silt.
Along its eastern border is extended a range of neat edifices, while lower down sleep the calm, clear waters of the lake, unruffled by a ripple, and reflecting from its placid bosom the stupendous vegetation of the wooded alluvion beyond.
The deposites of alluvion along the banks betray a similar origin of gradual accumulation by the annual floods.
There are said to exist, at this point upon the Mississippi, indications of a huge parapet of limestone having once extended across the stream, which must have formed a tremendous cataract, and effectually inundated all the alluvion above.
The current, in its more furious stages, often tears up islands from the bed of the river, removes sandbars and points, and sweeps off whole acres of alluvion with their superincumbent forests.
The depth of the alluvion is upward of forty feet; and from that depth we are told that logs, leaves, coal, and a stratum of sand and pebbles bearing marks of the attrition of running waters, have been thrown up.
It is an extensive alluvion on a level with the sea; on which we look in vain for hill or elevation of any sort.
Now, if the feudal law did exist, and by that law alluvion did accrue to the Crown of France, does it not follow that the same right did accrue to the United States by the deed of cession from France, who owned the territory?
It is well known that the feudal law did exist in Louisiana, previous to its acquisition by the United States, and that by that law alluvion does accrue to the Crown.
Alluvion is an imperceptible addition; and that which is added so gradually that you cannot perceive the exact increase from one moment of time to another is added by alluvion.
Moreover, soil which a river has added to your land by alluvion becomes yours by the law of nations.
The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing a dense growth of trees and shrubbery.
It was evident, however, that here were deposited millions of acres of the richest alluvion on the globe, and in future times another Holland may be expected to be rescued from the dominions of the ocean.
Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.
So suitable is the rich alluvion of the river banks to the growth of these trees, that in ten years they attain to a sufficient size for felling.
