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Example sentences for "rocky bottom"

  • Cape St Mary, with a rocky bottom upon it and over an indefinite area about it, is perhaps 3 miles long, NE and SW, by some 2 miles wide.

  • White head 4½ miles (just inside the Bulkhead) and has depths from 6 to 14 fathoms over a rocky bottom.

  • White Head, this piece of bottom has about 25-fathom depths over a rocky bottom.

  • The soundings varied between 6 and 3 fathoms; and at five in the evening diminished rather suddenly to 2½, on a rocky bottom, two or three miles from the land.

  • Both united formed a very powerful stream, rushing with great impetuosity over a rocky bottom, with frequent falls or rapids.

  • We proceeded up Sydney River to the south-east about three miles before we could find a convenient Place to Cross, as the stream ran with great rapidity over a rocky bottom.

  • The river wound upon every point of the compass, and its breadth was much contracted by shoals and rapids running over a rocky bottom: the stream ran with great velocity, and the boat experienced no interruptions.

  • Our soundings in passing within the Ledge was from 35 to 47 fathoms, a rocky bottom.

  • We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.

  • On lakes it should be fished for in comparatively deep water, over pebbly or rocky bottom.

  • The largest groupers can be taken on rocky bottom in the deep holes about the inlets.

  • Here we met with twelve and fourteen fathoms over a rocky bottom.

  • Soon after, the depth increased to sixty and seventy fathoms, a rocky bottom; but in the entrance of the bay, the depth was from thirty to six fathoms; the last very near the shore.

  • In this situation, the depth of water was forty fathoms, over a rocky bottom.


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