Few watercourses were crossed; the country was suffering under extreme drought; and no discoveries of importance were made.
He had christened many of the inland watercourses on his way across, but most of his names have been replaced by others, it having been difficult subsequently to identify them.
In many cases, the watercourses which he thought to be independent creeks, are but ana-branches of the Diamantina.
The numerous watercourses that drained the table lands during the rainy season were now dry.
Riding up a steep road, we came to the camps of the men on the wooded and undulating plateau over the river, which is broken by watercourses into ravines covered with brushwood and forest trees.
The river runs below deep and strong, and across the roads or watercourses leading to it are feeble barricades of plank, which a howitzer could shiver to pieces in a few rounds.
The country is intersected by numerous springs and watercourses in every direction.
The view to the north is over a large plain of gums, mulga, and spinifex, with watercourses running through it.
However, Cyrus Harding did not remember having seen, at the time of his excursion to the crater, any other watercourses but the Red Creek and the Mercy.
It had followed, on one side, the valley of Red Creek, and on the other that of Falls River, evaporating those watercourses in its passage.
One glance told the experienced hands what those fleeing rascals were,--Indians, fresh from some deviltry, their swift ponies bounding over the little gullies and watercourses like so many goats.
All kinds of fruit abound; the margins of the watercourses blossom with flowers that would be prized in a hothouse, and the most marvelous fecundity prevails.
Our men had to advance across ravines and beds of watercourses covered with large stones, and up the wooded slopes of hills where stone walls constituted ready-made sangars easily capable of defence.
It was a continual succession of watercourses and mountains, of uphill and downhill travel over the most uneven surface in the blackness of night, and it took nearly eight hours to march three miles.
I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
By the watercoursesof Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.
At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
Bring back, Jehovah, our captives, Like watercourses in the Southland.
Other discoveries of streams or watercourses were made soon afterwards, two of the principal being named the Claude and the Balmy Creek.
Having scaled the steepest part of the ridge, here about 800 feet high, the travellers were careful to head all the watercourses on both sides, in the hope of finding that the highest ground would also be continuous.
In dry watercourses Cytisus is common, with a host of small Cruciferae, Boragineae, and Compositae; Papaveraceae are very common with Glaucium.
Watercourses as high up cliffs and hills as 100 feet above the river.
The commonest shrub along the watercourses is Lycium, with another Lycioid thorny plant.
This Indian game, which has left its name on one of the watercourses of Tennessee, Ball-Play Creek, required a level space of some five or six hundred yards in length but no other preparation of the ground.
It was the same in the south of London, where from the Ravensbourne to the Wandle similar watercourses reached the Thames from the southern hills.
Having now given an account of all the extinct brooks north of the Thames, we will cross that river and see what watercourses formerly existed on the Surrey side.
Although the rainfall is greater than anywhere else in the United States, except Florida, the sudden fall in the topography of the watercourses brings quick drainage.
To maintain a measure of safety the pioneer began to build block houses and forts along the watercourses traveled by the Indians.
The Ponte Alto stream was, like most of the other watercourses of that region, wonderfully limpid.
One of those watercourses descended in cascades over laminated successive flows of lava, between which thin layers of white crystallization could be seen.
This we kept, as well as the formation of the country and the watercourses would permit.
The Indian name of the stream, Chucktununda, is said to mean “stone roofs or houses,” and was applied to other watercourses with banks of overhanging rocks which formed shelter during rain.
The principal vegetation of this plateau was Acacia, scarce and stunted; in some places under the hills and in the watercourses these trees are numerous and well grown.
Here the country was stony and white-coloured, with watercourses full of rounded stones.
As the forests are destroyed, the springs which flowed from the woods, and, consequently, the greater watercourses fed by them, diminish both in number and in volume.
They generally originate in the checking of watercourses by the falling of timber, or of earth and rocks, across their channels.
From these causes, there is a constant degradation of the uplands, and a consequent elevation of the beds of watercourses and of lakes by the deposition of the mineral and vegetable matter carried down by the waters.
Young trees sprout plentifully around the springs and along the winter watercourses of the desert, and these are just the halting stations of the caravans and their routes of travel.
James did not base this description of watercourses in Louisiana on personal observation, yet it is fairly accurate.
Few watercourses were crossed, the country was suffering from extreme drought, and no discoveries of any importance were made.
Eyre, however, after his recent experience, was convinced that the transit of stock round the head of the Great Bight was impracticable, the sterile nature of the country and the absence of watercourses being against it.
Back from the main watercoursesare countless natural reservoirs, that lie for years dry, and drought-smitten, save in an exceptional flood.
Now there are not even stumps; the woods are gone, and the watercourses are torrents in spring and beds of dry clay in summer.
Our American watercourses are generally too wide or too turbulent to become such a domestic pet as we all know the river Thames to be.
Small watercourses of the same sort are to be found all over the country, and afford delightful trips for those who are willing to travel in so leisurely a fashion.
What then can be the nature of that mysterious interior, bounded as it is by a table-land without river or lakes, without watercourses or drainage of any kind, for so vast a distance?
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