Each layer was probably produced by the deposition of all the sediment furnished at one time, and hence only as many layers would be formed in a year as the number of freshets in the rivers which furnished the materials.
The mountain freshets all along the road to Urumtsi were more frequent and dangerous than any we had yet encountered.
Even as early as July we saw no stream below 6000 feet, and even above this height the mountain freshets frequently flowed far beneath the surface under the loosely packed rocks, bidding defiance to our efforts to reach them.
For three winters they were kept in tents and dug outs to obtain information on this point, and on the spring and winter freshets which it was anticipated would be a source of great annoyance.
The heavy freshets proved more than the culverts could carry off, and besides the stone work would wash out much quicker than did piles.
To begin with, Mrs. Cattermole’s apprehensions were justified and the spring freshets swept away the dam, and so Matt was set to work hauling brushwood and gravel and logs to build up a kind of breast-work.
Where great freshets occur it is necessary to guarantee the artificial beds against the enormous increase of the water's destructive action.
They prove, however, of great utility at times of large freshets by causing deposits which are subsequently carried down in much smaller quantities.
Buildings and dikes are falling into ruins, and the river freshets frequently inundate the land.
We could not place any dependence in the regularity of the tides, as strong winds andfreshets in the tributaries influence them.
The new lord of the manor ditched the marshes, and walled in his new rice-fields with dikes, to keep out the freshets from the upland and the tides from the ocean, perfecting a complete system of drainage and irrigation.
Because the biggest freshets always come in the spring, and the top of this drift-pile was put where it is by the biggest freshets, so the river won't go near the top in November.
The freshets which had washed the earth away from the roots, had piled a great mass of drift-wood against one side of them.
It withstood the freshets and was in service, scarcely needing repairs, for many years.
His father's house was situated near the bank of a small stream which was much swollen every springtime by the freshets from the melting snows above.
Elaborate ice-fenders are on the up-stream side of the piers, there being an enormous ice-pressure when the spring freshets are running.
The freshets to which they are subject, all occur at different seasons, beginning with the southernmost and ending with the most northerly.
This is a most merciful provision: for if thefreshets in two or three of these streams were to happen at the same time, the effects would be desolating.
Upon this stream there is erected a grist mill, and there was a saw mill, but the freshets washed it away last spring.
Here a commencement of a settlement had been made by Simmons, Parker, and others, and about a dozen buildings erected, but were now abandoned on account of its being subject to be overflowed by the annual high freshets of the Columbia river.
Upper Fox, which runs into it, and the Lower Fox, which runs out of it into Green bay; it also acts as a sort of reservoir or regulator to prevent freshets in the Lower Fox.
A dirt dam is not generally desirable, since in most cases the dam must also be used as a waste weir; that is, the freshets must run over the dam.
At the time of freshets the streams carry mud in abundance, which mud is continually settling out of the water as opportunity offers, and with this settlement of mud there occurs also the settlement of the germs.
I have knownfreshets in March to inundate the country for miles.
The drawback to the plantations upon the lower Roanoke lay in their liability to being flooded by the freshets to which the Roanoke was exposed.
In earlier times the river flooded this whole area, when freshets swelled its tributaries in the spring.
The land sank, and freshets came here and there, drowning out all plant life, and covering the layers of peat with beds of sand or mud.
On one occasion he ventured upon a jam of logs just above a rolling dam, over which the spring freshets poured one vast sheet of water, plunging several feet perpendicularly into a boiling cauldron.
From the causes alluded to, the Androscoggin is not much affected with drought, nor so seriously by freshets as most rivers, the mills being protected by ledges.
Such was the case nine years since--also last spring; but the damage to our mills in these two ice freshets was but trifling.
It is situated on the Mississippi, commencing a few miles below the Ohio, and extending downward to Red river, uninterrupted by hills or high lands, and subject in many places to inundation from the freshets of the Mississippi.
The Konzas is navigable only in high freshets for boats of burden, and on such occasions not more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles, the navigation being obstructed by shoals.
These freshets having subsided, the more northerly branches discharge their floods, formed by the melting of the snow at a later period.
The reason is obvious; the freshets of the more southerly tributaries are discharged early in the season, and wash from their mouths the sand and mud previously deposited therein, leaving them free from obstructions.
Occasional freshetscontribute to render them navigable during short portions of the other months of the year; but no reliance can be placed in periodical returns of freshets, excepting those of the spring season.
The water here becoming stagnant, deposits its mud; and the tributaries, having no more freshets to expel it, remain with their mouths thus obstructed till the ensuing spring.
As the freshets {221} of the river seldom prevail more than a few days at a time, and are usually attended by sudden rises and falls of the water, boats of moderate draft and burden only are suited to its navigation.
The freshets of the Merrimack come chiefly from the last-named stream and minor tributaries.
Only a few times have freshetsexceeded ten feet rise over that dam.
This street may have been much wider in times of yore--for it seemed to be quite an old village--and the encroachments of the eroding river during freshets may have reduced it to its present narrowness.
I was to have ridden with the native mail-carrier to the north of the island to take the steamer for Honolulu, but there are freshets in the gulches on the road, making the ride unsafe.
During freshets the river sometimes rises thirty feet, and hides these pools, but during the dry season the upper bed is bare, and after a succession of cascades of various heights the stream pours into the first basin, filling it with foam.
These freshets flood the business streets named after St. Peter and St. Paul on the level of the wharves.
Another peculiarity of Quebec is its ice-freshets in spring.
Some of the inundations caused in Holland by these floods and freshets have been terrible.
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