After travelling three miles we came to a chain of large ponds of brackish water, but with excellent grass around them, and as the horses had nothing to eat or drink last night we halted for three hours.
At ten miles we crossed a watercourse with many pools of brackish water in it, trending to a lake visible under the coast ridge.
UPON moving on early this morning, we crossed the bed of a considerable watercourse, containing large deep pools of brackish water, but unconnected at present by any stream.
Brackish water is not pleasant to drink, but it is not necessarily unhealthy.
But to return to our specific case, brackish water is not necessarily dirty, and as I have said, is to my mind one of Nature's protections against fever of the desert.
In the gully below there is a small oasis of palm trees and a few square yards of vegetation alongside a small spring of brackish water--the only water there is--with a reservoir.
Thus, for example, a deposit near Shrewsbury, probably formed in brackish water, has been described by Sir R.
Of the thirteen Phytolitharia, nine are met with in the two deposits in Bahia Blanca, where there is evidence from two other species of Polygastrica that the beds were accumulated in brackish water.
At Colonia del Sacramiento, further westward, I observed at the height of about fifteen feet above the river, there of quite fresh water, a small bed of the same Mytilus, which lives in brackish water at Monte Video.
Orbigny, brackish water at the mouth of the Plata, nearly or quite as salt as the open sea.
Abundance of brackish water lay in small pools along the course of the stream-bed, which at 1.
Four miles to the south-east we came upon a pool of brackish water, surrounded with bulrushes, in a channel coming from the south of the Hamersley Range, again apparently offering us a chance of getting to the southward.
This mud contains in it recent species of shells, some of them proper to brackish water, and is believed by Mr. Darwin to be an estuary or delta deposit.
The fluviatile and marine shells inclosed in these small lakes often live together in brackish water; but the uncongenial nature of the fluid usually produces a dwarfish size, and sometimes gives rise to strange varieties in form and color.
At certain times, when the river is low, the influx of tide water is sufficient to produce an abundance of brackish water diatoms at Greenwich Point.
Large plantations of date trees grow on the sea-shore, among which, as usual, is a well of brackish water.
There is a well of brackish water, and a large Birket, which is filled from the well, in the time of the Hadj.
The action of pure sea-water on the free animalcules, previously immersed in fresh or brackish water, was equally striking.
I placed some ova in brackish water, of the strength of two parts of fresh water to one of pure sea-water, their contents were readily developed, though the escaping embryos did not swim vigorously.
The development of the larva is equally well accomplished in distilled water, in well-water, and in brackish water.
At twelve miles we came to a large rocky watercourse of brackish water, trending to the east-north-east, through a narrow valley bounded by dense scrub.
In Fasy's time, there were fifteen wells of brackish water at Muna: it seems that water may be found at a certain depth in all the country round Mekka.
In this quarter is one of the fountains of sweet water derived from the canal, and there are several wells of brackish water.
A public fountain of sweet water, no longer in use, with a pretty cupola built over it, stands on one side of the garden; on the other is a large well of brackish water: many such are dispersed over the Moabede.
Balanus improvisus and eburneus are able to survive in brackish water.
This species, is very easily killed by brackish water, as are some other species, whilst B.
It is found among eel-grass in brackish water, and also in pools and ditches on muddy shores from Massachusetts Bay to Florida.
It is found in bunches on piles of wharves and bridges, in brackish water, on the eastern coast as far south as Charleston, South Carolina.
This shrimp is found as far north as Long Island, and often in brackish water, or even where the water is quite fresh.
The best season is during late summer or autumn in brackish water, from an anchored boat, at half-flood or half-ebb tide; up the tidal rivers at high tide.
It grows to a foot or more in length, occasionally weighing three pounds; but the usual size is from six to nine inches, and from one-half to a pound in weight in brackish water.
On the Atlantic slope it is more rarely found from Pennsylvania to Georgia, where it often exists in brackish water.
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