These savannas are apparently overflowed in times of exceptionally high water; and there are evidences that the stream has occasionally changed its course, through the sunbaked banks of ashy-gray mud, in years long past.
It begins with a prominent peak known as the Loma Cunagua, which rises abruptly from the low level savannas ten miles east of the town of Moron in the northwestern corner of the Province.
High and comparatively dry plateaus, in places, rise almost abruptly from low level savannas that remain moist in the driest seasons of the year.
Although almost no care was given to these animals, and no attempt made at selection or improvement of the breed, they continued to multiply and thrive on the rich native grasses of the savannas throughout the Island.
The appearance of the country, its soil, and productions, between these rivers, were nearly similar to those which he had already passed, except that the savannas were more frequent and extensive.
It is more difficult to explain the origin of bare savannas enclosed in forests, than to recognise the causes which maintain forests and savannas within their ancient limits like continents and seas.
Continuing their march, the country now spread out into broad savannas terminated by forests, which, as they drew near, seemed to stretch on every side to the very verge of the horizon.
Certainly our common grass of Parnassus, which is no grass at all, never starred the meadows round about the home of the Muses, nor sought the steaming savannas of the Carolinas.
Evidently this was the Savannas of which he had heard so much, and these foreign-looking bungalows were the country homes of the rich Panamanians.
But at the bank he was told that the proprietor had gone home, and he drove to the house only to learn that Senor Garavel and his daughter had left for Las Savannas not half an hour before.
You gallop out to the Savannas and make some inquiries.
She tossed her head in the direction of the Savannas behind her.
Tiring of the scene at last, Kirk continued his wanderings, bearing gradually toward the right, that he might eventually emerge upon the Savannas below, where he knew there was a good paved road leading to the city.
The savannasand open plains are of a deep fat and greasy mould, which when drained and freshened, become also fruitful and excellent parts of a plantation.
At a distance the marshes and savannas appear like level meadows, with branches or creeks of the sea running through them.
As for our Low Lands, such as Marshes, Savannas and Percoarson-Ground, which lies low, all of them naturally afford good Land for Pasturage.
The second sort grows on a small Bush in our Savannas and Meads, and in the Woods.
Through the wide spaces between the trees the lawns and savannas of the park were to be distinguished, with other woods and groves beyond.
This became more particularly the case as the moon rose higher, and the crossing and interlacing of the shadows in the woodland was rendered more intricate and perplexed, while the lawns and savannas only received the brighter light.
In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab (Adanisonia digitata), doom palm (Hyphaene) and euphorbias.
Guests began to arrive, coming from Seloy and other coast villages from the north, and from the broad savannas of the fertile Alachua land, until many hundred of them were encamped within a few miles of Fort Caroline.
He is not much of a mountain bird, but prefers the low savannas and open plains.
Bartram states that in Florida he only appears after the savannas have been on fire, when he is seen to pass over the ground amidst the black ashes, hunting for and devouring the snakes and lizards that have been killed by the fire.
Small forests and wide savannas follow each other in rapid succession; the Ozama River is forded and a stretch of swampy soil with bad bogs is encountered.
Savannas separated by small forests are then crossed and the little town of Cevicos is reached, the halfway place between Santo Domingo and La Vega.
There are three species of jacamar to be found on the different sandhills and dry savannas of Demerara; but there is another much larger and far more beautiful to be seen when you arrive in that part of the country where there are rocks.
How extensive appear the savannas or natural meadows, teeming with innumerable herds of cattle, where the Portuguese and Spaniards are settled, but desert as Saara where the English and Dutch claim dominion!
Its plains, its swamps, its savannas and forests abound with the largest serpents and wild beasts; and its trees are the habitation of the most beautiful of the feathered race.
The first few miles were trying, for the coast was swampy and thickly grown up to underbrush; but in time the jungle gave place to higher timber and to open savannas deep in guinea-grass.
Out on the cool, clean hills and the windy savannas where the Insurrectos dwelt there was health.
The Aurora, rising rose-coloured from the waves of a West Indian sea, flings its sweetest smile athwart the savannas of Texas.
Pitched on one of the grassy savannas by the stream, so fairly beneath us that the smallest cannon planted on our cliff could have dropped a shot into it, was the camp of the powder train.
The camp field was the largest of the savannas or natural clearings.
In the semi-arid scrub forest the same fossorial species as exist in the savannas are found.
This species inhabits the scrub forests of the Pacific coastal plain and the savannas in southern Veracruz; apparently it does not occur in rainforest.
Many ecologists and phytogeographers have postulated that savannas are either man made or are examples of a fire climax.
The low, spiny, deciduous trees of the scrub forest and the grasses and scattered trees in the savannas provide little shelter.
Calling males were found in and about ponds on the savannas in southern Veracruz, in ponds in open forest in northern Oaxaca (not in forest pools), and in temporary pools in the scrub forest on the Pacific lowlands.
Calling males were found in open scrub forest near Tehuantepec and in savannas near Novillero.
During the dry season the more extensive marshes in the savannas persist; many ponds and most of the streams in the rainforest are permanent throughout the year.
This frog is abundant in the Gulf lowlands of the isthmus, where large breeding congregations were found in grassy ponds on the savannas and in openings in the forest.
Adults were found along streams and in marshes in savannas and rainforest.
On the other hand, the savannas and scrub forests are characterized by extreme conditions of desiccation, a factor of considerable importance in limiting the ecological distribution of amphibians.
The picture is somewhat complicated by the savannason the Gulf Coastal Plain, which, as will be shown later, are dependent upon edaphic features more than climatic conditions.
In the savannas there are depressions, some of which contain water throughout the year; these are often surrounded by trees providing refugia for amphibians during the dry season.
In the dry season they were most frequently found in rainforest, whereas in the rainy season breeding congregations were found in savannas as well.
Commonly found on both sides of the isthmus, this large tree frog nearly always is associated with trees; it is not found in the savannas, although it breeds in savannas adjacent to rainforest.
Conversely, the savannas and scrub forests have little atmospheric moisture during the dry season.
How often during our journeyings in the savannas and highlands of Colombia did we not recall the beautiful couplet of Castellanos regarding the primitive inhabitants of New Granada!
In every direction the green savannas were intersected by caños and rivers which looked like streams of molten silver.
Nature is grand and restful, and green savannas and tranquil waters leave fair pictures in our memories; but after all, man is eminently a social being, and needs companions of his kind.
The great forests behind the marshes grew dark as the sun slowly disappeared, while palm-crowned hammocks on the savannas stood out in bold relief like islets in a sea of green.
From half a mile to two miles back of the low savannas of the coast, rose, like a wall of green, the old forests, grand and solemn in their primeval character.
With the exception of a few places, where the upland penetrated these savannas to the waters of the sea, the marshes were soft alluvium, covered with tall coarse grasses, the sameness of which.
We travelled slowly through the heavily grassed savannas and the dense forests of yellow pine towards the east, in a line parallel with, and only three miles from, the coast.
Skirting the marshy savannas of His Satanic Majesty's earthly dominion, I ascended the Steinhatchee River, when a clearing with a rough house and store gave unmistakable signs of the proximity of the settler of whom I had heard.
The fresh savannas of the Sangamon Here rise in gentle swells, and the long grass Is mixed with rustling hazels.
For here the fair savannas know No barriers in the bloomy grass; Wherever breeze of heaven may blow, Or beam of heaven may glance, I pass.
Their haunt is on the green "everglades" and wide savannas of Florida, on the llanos of the Orinoco, and the plains of the Apure.
On the evacuation by the Spaniards the savannas swarmed with cattle, of Andalusian race--half-wild.
Another tract of hommock lay to the north, separated from the larger one by savannas and open forests of pine timber.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savannas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
