 | English literature - 1818 - 616 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading its wuters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...the shrubs and bushes showed that, at times, it rose two or three feet higher, causing the whole country to become a marsh, and altogether uninhabitable.... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 706 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...feet high, and the marks of flood on the shrubs and hushes shewed that at times it rose between two and ihrer feet higher, causing the whole country to... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 708 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...feet high, and the marks of flood on the shrubs and hushes shewed that at times it rose between two and three feet higher, causing the whole country to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 872 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...country to become a marsh, and altogether uninhabitable. " Further ' " Further progress westward, had it been possible, was now useless, as there was neither... | |
 | History - 1819 - 838 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...country to become a marsh, and altogether uninhabitable. " Further - ** Further progress westward, had it been possible, was now useless, as there was neither... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...spreading its waters over stag Dated lagoons and morasses, without re ceiving.iny stream that we know of, during the whole extent of its course. The banks were not more than three feet high, and the in irks of flood on the shrubs and bushes showed that at times it rose between two and three ti-et... | |
 | William Charles Wentworth - Medical personnel and patient - 1820 - 616 pages
...gradually diminishing, and spreading ita waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of...more than three feet high, and the marks of flood in the shrubs and bushes, shewed that at times it rose between two and three feet higher, causing the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1822 - 772 pages
...lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream that we knew of during the whole extent of its count. The banks were not more than three feet high, and the marks of flood oa the shrubs and bushes, shewed, that at times it rose two or three feet higher, causing the whole... | |
 | William Charles Wentworth - Australasia - 1824 - 514 pages
...navigable waters fall westward into the sea between the limits pointed out in my instructions. x " I continued along the banks of the stream until the...; and the marks of flood on the shrubs and bushes, shewed that at times it rose between two and three feet higher, causing the whole country to become... | |
 | Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - Australia - 1917 - 1452 pages
...spreading its Waters over Stagnant Lagoons and Morasses, without receiving any Stream that we know of during the whole extent of its Course. The Banks...high, and the Marks of flood on the Shrubs and Bushes shewed that at times it rose between Two and Three feet higher, Causing the whole Country to become... | |
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... through a perfectly level country, barren in the extreme, and being evidently at periods entirely under water. To this point it had been gradually diminishing, and spreading its waters over stagnated lagoons and morasses, without receiving any stream... 