The coarser rubbish, too heavy to be lifted into the air, is left to strew wide tracts with residual gravels (Fig.
These desolate tracts are therefore frequently visited by scientific collecting expeditions.
Large areas are subject to overflow each season of flood, and still larger tracts mark abandoned flood plains below which the rivers have now cut their beds.
On more level tracts it accumulates in seas of sand, sometimes, as in the deserts of Arabia, two hundred and more feet deep.
The gypsum and salt deposits of the Salina show that toward the close of the Silurian period a slight oscillation brought the sea floor nearer to the surface, and at the north cut off extensive tracts from the interior sea.
White limy incrustations of this nature cover considerable tracts in northern Mexico.
In some parts of Paraguay and southern Brazil these mounds, like gigantic potato hills, cover tracts of considerable area.
The monotonous levels of Turkestan include vast alluvial tracts now in process of building by the floods of the frequently shifting channels of the Oxus and other rivers of the region.
This was the popular mode in which tracts were distributed; and when posted against a wall, or framed and hung up in a room, they excited notice, and were extensively read.
Broad tracts of gently-rolling prairie-land spread over the southern portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and vast pine-forests are laid under tribute in the north.
The foreigners residing upon these tracts create courts of justice, organize police forces, and govern themselves by laws of their own framing.
In or near one or two of the cities of China the Emperor has set apart certain tracts of land for occupation by foreigners.
This doctrine was really held, notwithstanding the supremacy of China over these tracts of land was recognized at regular intervals in the most substantial way, viz.
But it is a comfort to know we serve a merciful Master, though we do it each after his fashion, and with great tracts of wilderness atween us--what goes there?
Once his family could chase their deer over tracts of country wider than that which belongs to the Albany Patteroon, without crossing brook or hill that was not their own; but what is left of their descendant?
Railways tap great tracts of the country, going up to Fort McMurray and the Peace River, and these connect up with river and lake steamers that ply at intervals.
Some of the Old Thirteen possessed large tracts of unsettled lands within their chartered limits.
It may be safely asserted, that there are now more than a million of people, descendants of New England ancestry, living, free and happy, in regions which scarce sixty years ago were tracts of unpenetrated forest.
It is evident that the government gets nothing by all this, though the purchasers of small tracts are put to great trouble and expense.
But he hoped very soon, under the auspices of the Glenmutchkin Railway Company, to see a new periodical established, under the title of "Tracts for the Trains.
Much had been said and written lately about a work called "Tracts for the Times.
The increases of value quoted in the foregoing paragraphs are increases per acre and per urban lot, not increases derived from bringing new land under cultivation or new tracts within municipal limits.
Although many holders of large mineral and timber tracts seem to be in no hurry to sell portions of their holdings, they are probably moved by a desire to obtain higher prices rather than to continue as large landowners.
Population is then sparse and unoccupied territory is plentiful, and questions of the ownership of particular tracts of land do not concern them.
The better grazing tracts would be coveted by many different persons, especially in the more populous communities.
On the contrary, one of the common facts of to-day is the persistent effort carried on by railroads and other holders of large tracts to dispose of their land to settlers.
Having several plane tracts of a different shape higher than the rest of the surface.
Stone for building was absent from Babylonia Proper and the alluvial tracts of Susiana, but in the other provinces it abounded.
Few richer tracts are to be found even in these most favored portions of the earth's surface.
They are, or at least were recently, separated by tractsof dry land from two to four miles broad.
Two trading tracts are in particular named by the author as the chief lines of communication.
The country generally is covered with open pine woods, and has small tracts of second-rate land interspersed among these tracts.
Tracts of swamp about the town are also draining, or filling up; and this work, constantly pursued, will probably contribute more to the salubrity of the city, than all the other efforts to this end united.
As the early possessor of large tracts of land had sons to settle, they portioned off parallelograms to each; which, to combine the advantages of exportation and wood, extended from the river to the flooded forest in the rear.
They burn great quantities of lime from the beds of shells, which cover large tracts near the lakes; they also send sand from the beaches of the lakes, for covering the pavements of New-Orleans.
Many become eventually purchasers of the tracts on which they are settled, and lay foundations for fine estates and future independence.
The king had in former times parcelled it out into tracts of country, some large and some small, and made over these tracts to his great lords, or barons, as they were called.
The tracts of territory held by A or B or C were in almost every case made up of lands scattered about over all parts of the kingdom.
At the same time large tracts now occupied by the sea may then have been land, uniting or connecting by a chain of easily accessible islands the regions in which men of the same colour and physical peculiarities are now found.
These terms were very attractive, and many persons who were eager to take a share in what Penn was pleased to call "his holy experiment of Pennsylvania," applied for tracts of land in the new colony.
These tracts were widely distributed, and served to call attention to the reasonableness of their cause and to win sympathy for their struggles with the law.
Later, deeds were drawn up for the actual transfer of the lands, and the tracts to be transferred were surveyed by the old method of walking against time.
We afterwards came to sandhills and extensive tracts covered with that most unpleasing of shrubs to a traveller, the Eucalyptus dumosa, and the prickly grass mentioned by Mr. Oxley.
Its banks were soft and boggy, and beyond it we saw through the trees extensive tracts covered with reeds.
Beyond the White lake, which may be the distinguishing name of the last mentioned, we passed over several tracts of open forest land separated by dry sandhills, and at length encamped on a rich flat.
We entered soon after upon one of the finesttracts of grassy forest land we had ever seen.
The soil here is so rich that everything grows fast, and the thorny plants have spread all over the land, in some places growing so thick that they have ruined whole tracts of grazing land.
They would have to have large tracts of land to pasture their sheep, but had not money enough to buy the land.
The population increased steadily and man began to occupy vast tracts of wilderness which had been unoccupied since the beginning of time.
The surface of the country is hilly and undulating, showing patches of wood more or less extensive, and large tracts of fern of a dull greenish hue.
Just out of Tehama we struck into a country whose features reminded us of the wooded tracts between Stockton and Mariposa.
In no other region where these traces have been observed do they extend over such widetracts of country in unbroken continuity, this being of course owing to the level character of the land itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
