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The lower courses of the rivers are invaded by the sea and become estuaries, while the lower tributaries are cut off from the trunk stream. ELEVATION, on the other hand, increases the activity of all agencies of weathering, erosion, and transportation, restores the region to its youth, and inaugurates a new cycle of erosion.
Formation of the delta of the Rhone The diluvial wash The alluvium spread over this The three stages the river pursues The zone of erosion The zone of compensation The zone of deposit River mouths Estuaries and deltas The formation of bars Of lagoons The lagoons of the Gulf of Lyons The ancient position of Arles between the river and the lagoons Neglect of the lagoons in the Middle Ages They become morasses Attempt at remedy Embankments and drains A mistake made The Camargue now a desert Les Saintes Maries No evidence to support the legend Based on a misapprehension.
Where the country was low and flat, and the drift extended far into the ocean, the encroachment of the sea gave rise, not only to our large estuaries, but also to the sounds and deep bays forming the most prominent indentations of the continental coast, such as the Bay of Fundy, Massachusetts Bay, Long Island Sound, and others.
At the mouth of this passage, the land on Staten Island rises in a high bluff, which overhangs the water, not unlike the tale-fraught cape of Misenum. From this elevated point, the eye not only commands a view of both estuaries and the city, but it looks far beyond the point of Sandy-Hook, into the open sea.
The march of the troops was severe and painful in the extreme; for the road was constantly intersected by streams, which, swollen by the winter rains, widened at their mouths into spacious estuaries. Pizarro, who had some previous knowledge of the country, acted as guide as well as commander of the expedition.
The rivers of our region are of three kinds; little surface drains principally in the north; broad estuaries like the Mersey and many streams of Eastern Scotland in the central parts, and a single bed, the Ogobe, breaking through the subtending Ghats, and forming a huge lagoon-delta.
So swept that resolute but fantastic band along the placid estuaries of Zealand, waking the stagnant waters with their wild beggar songs and cries of vengeance. That vengeance found soon a distinguished object.
Roman fleets also, sailing from the harbors of Gaul along the German coasts and up the estuaries, coöperated with the land forces of the empire, and seemed to display, even more decisively than her armies, her overwhelming superiority over the rude Germanic tribes.
So far as he has increased the erosion of running waters by the destruction of the forest or by other operations which lessen the cohesion of the soil, he has promoted the deposit of solid matter in the sea, thus reducing the depth of marine estuaries, advancing the coast-line, and diminishing the area covered by the waters.
Their characteristics were speed, buoyancy, comfort, and elegance a combination of every requisite for the safe and advantageous prosecution of passenger-traffic on streams and estuaries.
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