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Example sentences for "found water"

  • After leaving the creek we crossed a low scrubby sandstone range and got to the head of a watercourse in which we found water on following it down to a short distance.

  • In returning we found water in a creek in which we had found no water at the place we crossed it in our outward route.

  • Mr. Campbell went with one party and found water on the west bank up the river.

  • Crossing the range at the head of this creek, we came on a gully running north, down which we proceeded, and soon found it open out into a creek, at two or three points in which we found water.

  • Below this we found water at several places, but it all seemed to be either from surface drainage or from springs in the sand.

  • Saddled up at dawn, and proceeded towards Mount Margaret, obtaining a little water at the spot where we found water on our former trip.

  • At five miles struck a gum creek in which we found water.

  • At four miles struck the creek that I have before crossed nearer to the range, found water, and camped to give my horses every chance.

  • Sundown: I am quite surprised that Kekwick has not returned, as my instructions to him were not to go above five or six miles, and then to return whether he found water or not.

  • There are three table-topped hills to the east of the end of our north line; I think they are those within a short distance of which Major Warburton mentions that he found water.

  • We thus passed just under the most easterly part of Hope's Table Land, and came, about sunset, to a hollow containing ponds, in two of which we found water.

  • Following this downwards, I found the valley to improve, and two retreating emus drew our attention to a particular spot, where we found water, at length, in a pond.

  • Following the creek down, we found water in chains of ponds, and watercourses coming from a belt of scrub occupying the ground between the creek and the mountains.

  • At the junction of Comet Creek and the river, I found water-worn fragments of good coal, and large trunks of trees changed into ironstone.

  • We descended from them into the valley of a creek fringed with the white-gum tree, and followed it down for about three miles before we found water.

  • About two or three miles lower down, we found water in deep rocky basins in the bed of the creek.

  • This journey was accomplished with horses, and Forrest, like Stuart in Central Australia, happened to strike a belt of country intersected by low ranges and hills in which he found water.

  • He did not happen to find the lagoon, and had a long stage before he found water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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