Only sometimes, where things of small specific gravity are gathered in holes and embayed corners, a layer of freshwater shells may be seen.
In the freshwater streams are eels, lampreys, and whitebait; and now salmon and trout have been introduced into many of them, and are doing well.
Near the partially dry lagoon a small freshwater lake was found, and the only rock formation yet seen; it was a sand and ironstone.
I may here remind the reader, that among the results of our exploration of the Victoria was the addition of a new species of kangaroo, a freshwater tortoise, some fish, and several beautiful birds to the domains of natural history.
An encampment was found in the neighbourhood, near a small freshwater swamp, and by the things that were left behind it was evident that a hasty retreat had been made.
The freshwaterlake of Wailava in Santa Anna is frequented by crocodiles which occasionally attack natives fishing on the banks.
The Unios and the freshwater Nerites are also eaten.
The Polyzoa include freshwater as well as marine forms.
The Hag-fish is found on English coasts: so is the Marine Lamprey; while two freshwater forms are found in streams.
The so-called Freshwater Shrimp, Gammarus, is another common member of the Amphipoda.
Do you think freshwater fish will live in salt-water?
The basse is like a freshwater perch in some respects, but it is not so rounded, nor has it the bright colours of the perch.
THese Freshwater Mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbery.
It is also interesting to find that these ugly little freshwater mud and marsh plants are at home almost everywhere, from the Arctic circle to Tierra del Fuego and from Peru to Japan.
He found that the rocks had been first covered by thin layers of minute freshwater Algae, but that ferns were then occupying and inhabiting the lavas.
Cooke, British Freshwater Algae, on the authority of Phillips, Trans.
But plants do far more than cover the earth and render it fertile, for some of them assist in winning new land from the sea or from freshwater lakes.
In fact weeds, wayside, and freshwater plants, have by far the widest distribution of all.
And in spite of the comparative scarcity of lime in the soil of Devonshire, the list of land and freshwater shells is a long one.
The freshwater fish differ little from those found in the neighbouring counties; but there are fewer kinds in Devonshire than there are in the midlands or in the east of England.
At the end of our week, if the weather is warmer, we shall go on toFreshwater for our remaining few days.
The consolation was that we shall know better than to go to Freshwater another time.
In this article he also advocated the freshwater origin of the Old Red Sandstone, and discussed the relations of that formation, and of the Devonian, to the Silurian and Carboniferous.
It is a freshwater duck, and a Southern species--never being seen in very high latitudes; nor is it known in Europe in a wild state, but is peculiar to the Continent of America.
Some live entirely in the sea; others make their home in the freshwater lakes and rivers, while many species dwell indifferently, either in salt or fresh waters.
Throughout British North America, from the Yukon to Newfoundland, and from Labrador to Vancouver's Island, the rivers and freshwater lakes swarm with fish, and fish that in most cases is exceedingly good to eat.
Of course in many parts of Europe they could getfreshwater fish from the rivers or lakes.
These true lobsters resemble the freshwater crayfish in having their foremost pair of legs modified into large, unequal-sized claws.
But a time arrived when the higher classes preferred the freshwater fish of Orchies in Flanders, and even those of the Lyonnais.
Geographic variations of some physiological and morphological characters in certain freshwater fishes.
A list of the freshwater fish of Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, with keys.
A checklist of the freshwater fishes of Canada and Alaska.
Freshwater vertebrates of the Arctic and Subarctic.
The distribution of freshwater fishes in the provinces and main water basins of Canada.
The crew of the war-vessel are engaged in drying freshwater shrimps, tiny minnows, and other drainings and rakings of the water to store away for future use.
Gyrodactylus, parasitic, like Diplozoon, on the gills offreshwater fishes (Gasterosteus, etc.
In the freshwater forms Nais and Chaetogaster a more or less similar phenomenon takes place.
The ova of Diplozoon, a form parasitic on the gills of freshwater fish (Phoxinus, etc.
The adult Cucullanus elegans is parasitic in the alimentary tract of the Perch and otherfreshwater fishes.
In some cases the free larva becomes parasitic in a freshwater Mollusc, but without thereby undergoing any change.
The freshwater shellfish vary in size from that of a prawn to a large crayfish; the smallest are the best, and when nicely roasted there is no difference in taste between them and a shrimp.
At Barramba we sit down: we eat bread and meat; they eat freshwater mussels; the natives eat not freshwater mussels.
These freshwater turtle are cooked by being baked, shell and all, in the hot ashes; when they are done a single pull removes the bottom shell, and the whole animal remains in the upper one, which serves as a dish.
Several of the smaller sorts of freshwater fish, in size and taste resembling white-bait, are really delicious when cooked in this manner; they occasionally also dress pieces of kangaroo and other meats in the same way.
At this time the natives assemble near the freshwater lakes and lagoons in large numbers; these natural reservoirs are then shrunk to their lowest limits from evaporation and other causes, and are thickly overgrown with reeds and rushes.
The sight of this cheered us up; and when on tasting the water we found it excellent, and saw adhering to the banks a species of freshwater mussel (Unio) called by the natives Maraylya, our joy was complete.
Along its centre lay a chain of reedy freshwater swamps, and native paths ran in from all quarters to one main line of communication leading to the southward.
It is worthy of remark that the natives in the south-western part of Australia will not touchfreshwater mussels, which are very abundant in the rivers, whilst in the north-western part of the continent they form a staple article of food.
You had here eaten freshwater mussels: at this river we sleep.
In Freshwater Bay, dated on board the Speedwell schooner, on the coast of South America, in the latitude of 37: 25 S.
Freshwater deposits of Eocene age are also largely developed in parts of the Rocky Mountain region.
It also shows a fondness for the freshwater mussel (Anodonta cygnea).
Several small inlets trended in on either side of the river above the basin, particularly one upon the north side, which, from the height of the hills under which it trended, would probably produce a freshwater stream.
There were many in Freshwater who were keenly alive to their privilege.
I quote what follows because it shows how simple had been the Freshwater life.
At other times they walked in the Freshwater lanes.
We went first to Freshwater Gate, where he said the "maddened scream of the sea" in "Maud" had been first suggested to him.
The large group of people who came to Freshwater in the summer for the sole reason that Tennyson's writings and himself were among the greatest things in their lives, sometimes formed an almost unique society.
On one of the last days we were at Freshwater that Easter, Tennyson met our youngest child of five in the road, and addressed her, to her great amusement: "Madam!
The Easter of 1873 saw us again at Freshwater with another pleasant meeting of friends.
The two men used sometimes to walk together on the great Down which stretches from the Needles rocks to Freshwater Bay, on which the boundary between Tennyson's property and my father's is marked by the dyke beyond the Tennyson memorial cross.
To leave Freshwater without paying our homage to the Poet at Farringford was impossible.
The Freshwater side of the Isle of Wight was not at that time a fashionable neighbourhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freshwater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
