The first land which this mighty inundation encountered was the continent of Greece, over which it swept with irresistible force.
The rivers were banked out and the inundation regulated by means of canals.
The waters of the inundation must have been confined by dykes, and made to flow where the cultivator needed them, at a very remote date.
When the annual inundation covers the fields the land of Egypt exists no more; it becomes a watery plain, out of which emerge the villages and towns and the raised banks which serve as roads.
But the railway company was as much daunted by the inundation as a peasant going to market, and for two months after the accident no trains carried passengers from one city to the other.
All the while we dined, a boy tried to kindle a fire to warm us, and beguiled his incessant failures with stories of inundation on the road ahead of us.
This inundation totally prevented the Duke and his army crossing the river, and his allies on the other side coming to his support.
The hut being built at the edge of the pool, and inundated during part of the year, the crocodile had no doubt entered, at the time of the inundation of the savannahs, by the same opening at which it was seen to go out.
As the city is in the lowest part of the valley, and all the lakes except that of Texcoco are above its level, there is no positive safety from inundation at any hour.
After the great inundation of 1629, the project of making this the site of the capital was seriously considered.
Even a very great local inundation must have spread devastation far and wide and been a memorable event in all subsequent annals.
The Menam begins to rise in the month of June, and in August the inundation reaches its height, and then the waves of the ocean, opposing themselves to the current, force the waters of the river back upon its banks.
What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!
The first inundation since the conquest, occurred in 1553, and for three days the capital was under water and the communication kept up in boats and canoes.
In 1604, the abundant rains in the valley of Mexico during the month of August, caused aninundation which greatly alarmed the population.
In 1580, the abundant rain caused again an inundation of the capital, and Don Martin Enriquez was about to engage in the construction of the celebrated canal of Huehuetoca, when he was removed to the viceroyalty of Peru.
Probably the scuffles in the streets did little harm, but when such a terrible inundation took place as that of the Normans, and still worse the Saracens, who followed Robert Guiscard in the time of Gregory VII.
In the middle of the Euphrates river on this small map we see a shaded portion surrounded by mountains, perhaps to indicate the inundation mentioned in l.
The inundation of the lower portion of Eastern Armenia, the draining of which was effected by the cutting through the Taurus Mountains.
Why does the inundation of the Nile occur in the summer, coming from torrid countries?
But it is a strange fact that wherever these conditions of dusty desert turned green with animal inundation are found, there too you will find man a slave and a tyrant.
A great inundation of the sea forms the Zuyder Zee, a large gulf in the Netherlands, formerly covered with forests and towns; thousands of lives are lost and all the towns and villages submerged.
The inundation was something of the forgotten past.
This circular bay, or ocean chasm, the result of the violent inundation of the 13th century, surrounds, with the river, a narrow peninsula.
It seemed probable, therefore, that the inundation had been more successful in stopping their advance than had been supposed.
When the inundation ceases, the tree is cut down, and being perforated, a palatable juice exudes, from which they make a drink.
It is said that thousands of poor human beings perished, and that the inundation cost the city more than a hundred millions of rubles!
Russian rat, "many stories are still told of the fearful inundation which happened in 1824.
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