...If either could, or if the Teoughe could fill the lake—a thing which has never happened in modern times—then this little arm would prove a convenient escapement to prevent inundation...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There was much sickness in the town, and no wonder, for part of the water left by the inundation still formed a large pond in the centre...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The rivers have each a bed of low water—a simple furrow cut sharply out of the calcareous tufa which lined the channel of the ancient lake—and another of inundation...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It is therefore not yet the period of the central Zambesi inundation, as we were aware also from our knowledge of the interior...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The course of the Nile being in the opposite direction to this, it does not receive these subsidiary waters, and hence its inundation is recognized all the way along its course...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I have seen the ants at work by thousands, engaged in the work of erecting their hills in other districts suffering from inundation...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
... But we should have waited a month longer, for the inundation had not abated four inches...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...When an inundation reaches a basin filled with soda, the water of course becomes impregnated...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...The inundation attained its greatest height towards the end of January, an event possessing almost the same importance as that of the rising of the Nile...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Tuckey supposes that the inundation must produce a spectacle which justifies the high- flown description of the people...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...During a sudden inundation of the Rhine, a hare, unable to escape throughthe water to an eminence, climbed up a tree...
Percy J. Billinghurst 「A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals」
...The soil of Egypt, periodically washed by the inundation, is a black,compact, homogeneous clay, which becomes of stony hardness when dry...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...The Greek historians attributed these artificialmounds to the wisdom of the kings, and especially to Sesostris, who, asthey supposed, wished to raise the towns above the inundation...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...What we seeresembles the yearly inundation of the Nile, of which to a spectatorin space the river itself might be too narrow to be seen, and only theverdured country on its banks be visible...
E. Walter Maunder 「Are the Planets Inhabited?」
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