Dublin, and the morasses extend westward almost to the Shannon.
Impenetrable swamps and morasses defended it above, for they afforded no resting place whereon an army could stand.
The plain on which the city of Mexico is situated is studded with volcanic heights, projecting up from the morasses and lava fields.
William employed all his endeavors to subdue the Isle of Ely; and having surrounded it with flat-bottomed boats, and made a causeway through the morasses to the extent of two miles, he obliged the rebels to surrender at discretion.
He had his haunts and strongholds in the morassesof the Pedee and Black River.
This advantageous situation was fortified by art and labor; and in the twentieth year of his age, the emperor of the West, anxious only for his personal safety, retired to the perpetual confinement of the walls and morasses of Ravenna.
The same fortune, which opened the deserts and morasses of Scythia to their unarmed valor, which had laid so many warlike nations prostrate at their feet, had reserved the joys of this memorable field for the consummation of their victories.
It was not, however, upon the intrenchments that they relied, but rather upon the impassable morasses by which they were surrounded on every side.
Back of Vicksburg the country is low, and intersected in every direction by narrow, tortuous bayous, lined on either side by gloomy morasses or majestic forests.
The waters which rise from springs passing through marl or limestone are replete with calcareous earth, and when thrown over morasses they deposit this earth and incrust or consolidate the morass.
Morasses in great length of time undergo variety of changes, first by elutriation, and afterwards by fermentation, and the consequent heat.
Where woods have repeatedly grown and perished morasses are in process of time produced, and by their long roots fill up the interstices till the whole becomes for many yards deep a mass of vegetation.
The second thing which is always seen oozing from morasses is iron in solution, which produces chalybeate springs, from whence depositions of ochre and variety of iron ores.
In other circumstances, probably where less moisture has prevailed, morasses seem to have undergone a fermentation, as other vegetable matter, new hay for instance is liable to do from the great quantity of sugar it contains.
The higher and lower parts of morasses were necessarily produced at different periods of time, see Note XVII.
The recent production of iron is evinced from the chalybeate waters which flow from morasses which lie upon gravel-beds, and which must therefore have produced iron after those gravel-beds were raised out of the sea.
Hemmed in by impassable morasses and impenetrable thickets, in some places they were cut off from approaching even the river, by formidable belts of mangroves.
Szolnok is built on the opposite side, and was protected on one side by the river Zagyva and the impassable morasses of the Theiss, and on the other by strong ramparts and entrenchments.
The Zagyva morasses alone remained partly unprotected, an attack from that side being considered impracticable.
That temperamental bird always chooses peculiarly disagreeable morasses for his home.
Sometimes we explore lonely islands hidden in a maze of sand-bars, and discover where the terns and the laughing gulls nest; or we find wonderful things waiting for us on mountain-tops or hidden among morasses and quaking bogs.
They continued their journey in silence, Halbert Glendinning tracing with the utmost accuracy the mazes of the dangerous and intricate morasses and hills which divided the Halidome from the barony of Avenel.
To restless and indefatigable moss-troopers, indeed, these morasses were well known, and sometimes afforded a retreat.
Magnentius had fixed his residence in the city of Aquileia, and showed a seeming resolution to dispute the passage of the mountains and morasses which fortified the confines of the Venetian province.
These troops had to march by a most difficult and dangerous route among morasses and uncultivated places, where they thought to have perished of famine.
On the north coast, in Krawang and Rembang, with theirmorasses and double chains of chalk, there are districts with only 20% and 10% of the soil under cultivation.
The country was undrained, lochs and morasses covered what is now fertile land, and hillsides now in pasture were under the plough.
Next day Bruce's position was strong; beneath the towers of Stirling the Bannockburn protected his front; morasses only to be crossed by narrow paths impeded the English advance.
From the morasses found around the mouths of the rivers a malarious vapor arises, which is most destructive to health.
Descriptions of dreary wastes of sand, tangled forests, wild jungles, and treacherous morasses were exciting topics, but evidently thought to be features of a country that existed only in the minds of those who related its wonders.
But this opinion, far from being supported, is rather contradicted by the general appearance of things in that early time, when in every country vast tracts of land were suffered to lie almost useless in morasses and forests.
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