Barges on canals were the most efficient mode of transportation.
Work was begun in 1630 to make canals that would make marsh waters run to the sea.
In 1754, canals began to be constructed linking the main rivers.
It is situated in the midst of a garden, exquisitely planted and kept, and all this in a park walled in with hewn stone, planted with rows and walks of trees, canals and fish ponds, and stored with game.
The sole inconvenience he lies under, is the great quantity of sand which the stream brings along with it, and fills his canals and receptacles for fish too soon.
It may be that the so-called canals of Mars are of the same nature.
The lake connects by canals with various adjacent villages; while two canals (Perillo and Perillonet) communicate with the sea, though their mouths are blocked by locks.
He made the canalsand organized the irrigation (e.
Th' fellows that discovered th' canals on Mars which other fellows think cud be cured be a good oculist, hadn't anny right to think there were canals on Mars.
But wan iv thim said: 'I wondher if there ar-re canals on Mars; I believe there ar-re.
The wonderful canals which cut their way, where there are no great rivers, in China proper are reproduced even in this outlying dependency.
An extensive system of irrigation and canals were in use in the arid regions and drainage for the low lands near the sea.
The canals were silted up with mud, the marshes and the desert had encroached on the cultivated lands, the towns had become impoverished, and there were some provinces whose population consisted solely of shepherds and bandits.
Each meatus receives one or more openings of variouscanals and cavities of the facial apparatus.
There exists a very evident analogy between the canals through which both herniae pass.
The lofty palaces were ancient, blurred and seamed, but not ruinous—the smooth sunniness of the canals allured the eye on to the sea, the highway and bulwark of the city.
The canals were dull tracks but for the tossing wake in the middle of each as our gondolier cleft a path with his long-armed sweep.
It is only a short distance across the English Channel, and is the head of 1,200 miles of canals in Belgium which connect with the canal systems of Holland, France and Germany.
In the Flemish territory the flat nature of the terrain, with its numerous canalsand almost total absence of natural cover, made the losses especially severe.
It is not accessible by carriages and horses, on account of several canals which intersect it; these sometimes widen, and in one part the houses stand round a pretty little lake.
Stagnant canals and pools, with all circulation of air checked by rows of trees, cannot be healthy.
Monsters, and no less, to go making such heaps o' canals just to tempt the poor women in.
So then I ran crying, to tell some gabbling fool like myself what I had no business to tell out o' doors except to the saints, and there was one of our precious canals in the way; do they take us for teal?
These canals do not communicate directly with the gastro-canal, but are formed independently of it in the surrounding parenchyma of the mesoderm.
At the outer opening of these conducting canals special copulative organs are developed, as a rule.
The feeling of the three dimensions of space becomes an important means of orientation, and in the vertebrates, from the fishes up to man, the three spiral canals in the inner ear are developed as special organs of this.
These primitive renal canals are transmitted by the platodes to the vermalia, and by these to the higher stems of the coelomaria.
If the three spiral canalsare destroyed, the equilibrium is lost; the body totters and falls.
But with the platodes we begin to find important excretory organs in the nephridia, a pair of simple and ramified canals which lie on either side of the gut, and open outward.
It is said to have had lovely gardens, and many canals winding in and out, while in other places little miniature lakes are formed.
The canals are the principal feature of the old city of Batavia; but along the streets one detects also many business houses and banks, some of the largest being Chinese.
The canals leading out of the river reminded us of Batavia.
The Dutch aspect of the architecture and the canals were evidence of the influence of the fatherland, but the natives seemed to be a mixture of Javanese and Malays, while the Chinese, as elsewhere, were to be seen in large numbers.
We visited bazars and noted the general aspect of the place, canals being a dominant characteristic of the landscape.
Its rivers, streams and canals run black and blue with the stringent juices of all the woods and weeds of the world used in dyeing.
There they found a large town built in the water on piles, with canals instead of streets, full of movement and animation.
First of all, the salt waters of the great lake have entirely shrunk away, leaving modern Mexico high and dry, a league away from the waters that Cortes saw flowing in amplecanals through all the streets.
Roads and canals are among the most essential means of improving the condition of nations.
Canals were now built, and rivers made navigable in all directions.
In Scotland, the Caledonian Canal was cut directly across the country, and in Ireland several canals were built.
I may mention just here that the mills almost all adjoin the rivers or the different canals that ramify throughout the city, before I proceed at once to describe the labouring quarters.
So it happened that Molly and May were soon gliding through narrow canals into a part of Venice they had not seen before.
But we shall soon be leaving the mountains behind us and shall see the canals and the rice fields on the other side of them.
Antonio, "But ourcanals are all washed out twice a day.
Here one sees the innumerable wind-mills, and the labyrinthic net-work ofcanals which intersect Holland.
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