I rode past them on the watershed behind Cineto Romano.
At last the watershed was reached and we began a zigzag descent towards the harbour of Monterosso, meeting not a soul by the way.
For two or three miles every way this level stretches, hummocked by slight rolls between stream and stream, and upon the actual watershed marked by one or two stagnant ponds.
The tradition of such north-westward migration is preserved among the Kayans of the Baram, who, according to their own account, crossed the watershed into the basins of the western rivers only a few generations ago.
This tribe, dwelling in the watershed of the Limbang and Baram rivers, is closely akin to Muruts, but its tatu is very different.
With such a watershed as is drained by the two rivers, the run-off in a storm would be so impeded as to be very slow.
Saturday morning we left Lake Eleanor and climbed the steep ridge separating its watershed from that of the Tuolumne.
The watershed of this corner to the northwest is extensive, including a good part of what are now Mendocino, Trinity, Siskiyou, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties.
We gained the watershed a few yards to the south of the spot we had reached from the other side.
This range of hills separates the watershed of the Mekong from that of the much-dreaded Salwen.
I did not meet a single inhabitant of the Yalung watershed who was able to tell me whence any of their rivers came, or whither it went.
In spite of many dialectical peculiarities I found that the people of the Yalung watershed were nearly always able to speak and understand Tibetan.
The men are shorter than those of the eastern watershed of the Yalung, the women plainer and stouter and of heavier build.
If a watershed is purchased at a reasonable price and is well managed, it will become, as stumpage further appreciates in worth, a valuable municipal asset.
On account, however, of the large areas of open farm-land that lie on the watershed of the Ohio and that cannot be reforested, additional means are necessary for storing the surplus storm water.
Hitherto the cost of purchasing a forested watershed and holding it as unproductive property has deterred cities from seeking such sources.
After which answer he would get out maps, and show the child the red lines, which were his own journeys, and the exact spot in the watershed of the Orinoco where he believed the city to stand.
The massive eatings of powered blades and scoops to get at coal and other minerals on the steep slopes of the North Branch watershed and elsewhere, add heavily to sedimentation.
Under these circumstances, only stiff controls are going to make watershed programs and other devices work right.
These structures can serve several functions and can furnish for small watershed areas and small centers of population many of the benefits that the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation dams furnish for large areas.
Some are getting it--in the preceding chapter we noted the happy example of Pohick Creek in Virginia, where wholewatershed planning is being accomplished almost from scratch, before development.
Ideally, of course, such planning should be done before heavy development, and a pilot urban watershed program of this sort is being undertaken in the Pohick Creek basin on the metropolitan fringe in Fairfax County, Virginia.
As a result of long effort by a watershed association, two S.
The portage across the watershed from the streams of the Atlantic plain to those of the Ohio valley had been a matter of concern from colonial times.
The original purpose was to cross the watershed from the Potomac to the Ohio.
In this article Mr. Vermeule presented the possibilities of Pompton reservoir for use as an additional water supply for the city of New York, at the time when the Quaker Bridge reservoir on the Croton watershed was being considered.
This would be ample for flood purposes and would still afford a large impounded area, as the drawing off of an amount equal to 10 or even 15 inches on the watershed would not reduce the size of the lake to any great extent.
The entire flow from this watershed may be stored by building a dam across the gap at Mountain View and converting Pompton Plains into a great lake covering an area of 21 square miles.
The vicinity of Jerusalem consists of strata of the Eocene and chalk formations, having a general dip down the watershed of about 10 deg.
From Muang Nan my orders were to find the best route I could over the watershed to M.
Ngau the trail crosses the upper end of the long range which forms the watershed of the Nam Ing and Nam Ngau, along the western side of which for three days we travelled, sleeping at Muang Ing and Ban Pakeng.
Kob the trail follows up the Nam Tan in a general south-south-west direction, and crosses a low watershed into the bed of the Hoay Chang Kong, another rocky stream disastrous to foot gear.
Some of those from Seal occurred at a height of 420 feet above Ordnance Datum, and on what appeared to be the watershed between the Medway and the Darent.
Eastward of Ightham, within thewatershed of the Medway, implements from the gravels have been obtained at West Malling.
Atlanta is on the crest of the ridge dividing the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean from that of the Gulf of Mexico, and its elevation of 1,052 feet gives a bracing atmosphere.
Higher ground cut off the view to the north and clouds obscured the view to the east, but to the south we could discern some of the lofty summits of the western Cordillera on the watershed of which we stood.
From this breezy height let the traveller turn his eyes first to the north, and look back over that maze of low forest-covered mountains through which he has passed from Colon and which form the watershed between the two seas.
Behind the eastern earth wall rise the spurs and buttresses of the Cordillera, wild, bare glens running up to the watershed of the chain, across the head of one of which is the pass which leads down into the forest Montana.
It is evident that we are now approaching the watershed of the Fitzroy River, and hope soon to emerge from the vast tract of scrub which occupies the valley of the Suttor River.
The country was so level, although we were crossing the watershed between the north-west coast and the Gulf of Carpentaria, that the aneroid only varied from 29.
After the watershed is crossed, there is a drop towards the Jordan Valley; this latter portion of the Plain constitutes the Vale of Jezreel.
Rising slightly at first, it forms the watershed of "that ancient river, the river Kishon.
After crossing the mountain divide which separates the watershed of Van from that of Ararat, a valley opens out to the northeast.
From Ararat it is a six days' journey to Erzeroum along what may be called the roof of Western Asia--these elevated plains being about six thousand feet high, and forming the watershed between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.
This watershed afforded a fine view of the surrounding country, and from its apex I scanned our rear for miles without detecting any sign of animate life.
This watershed was also recognized as the line of Keith County, an organized community, and the next morning expectation ran high as to what the day would bring forth.
It nestles among the pines of an unfrequented and wild region of Northern Minnesota, many miles from the nearest white settlement, and just on the dividing ridge which forms the great watershed of North America.
It is, in fact, the watershed separating the Mississippi, Red River of the North and St. Lawrence River systems, all these great streams having their origin in springs or lakes found within this section of Minnesota.
Several lagoons, apparently the remains of more extensive waters, occur between Lake George and Bredalbane plains in the line of watershed as already observed.
It may be also observed that the sandstone reposing on the rock eastward of this division or watershed is slightly inclined towards the sea, whereas all the sandstone on the interior side, or westward of it, dips to the north-west.
The basis of a tract still further eastward, dividing the watershed of the interior from that which sends its streams to the sea is, as has been already observed, of granite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watershed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
