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For his frogmen, he made a sweeping gesture that told them to tackle the wreck anywhere. The frogmen moved in, operating in pairs. The water clouded rapidly with silt, particles of marine growth, and fish eggs. The top of the captain's cabin came off. Rick swam in through the murk and picked up the chair that had seemed to be in good condition.
Louise, who had stood at the inner doorway listening, turned to go, when she heard the substitute storekeeper finally say: "Curlew, out o' Boston." The name caught the girl's instant attention and she felt suddenly apprehensive. "Here's news o' her," Cap'n Joab said in a hushed voice. "And it ain't good news, Cap'n Silt." "What d'ye mean?" asked the latter. "Report from Fayal.
As the reef approaches the surface the corals of the inner area are smothered by silt and starved, and their Submarine Volcanic Peak hard parts are dissolved and scoured away; while those of the circumference, with abundant food supply, nourish and build the ring of the atoll.
'Am'zon' has been a name in our fambly since Cap'n Reba Silt first put the nose of his old Tigris to the tidal wave of the Am'zon River back in seventeen-forty. He come home to New Bedford and named his first boy, that was waitin' to be christened, 'Am'zon Silt. "So I called this this dream brother of mine 'Am'zon. These Cardhaven folks warn't likely to know whether I had a brother or not.
"I do not want to go," said Rickie, slowly opening his own letter. "As Agnes says, Ansell has refused to come to us. I cannot put myself out for him." "Who's yours from?" she demanded. "Mrs. Silt," replied Herbert, who had seen the handwriting. "I trust she does not want to pay us a visit this term, with the examinations impending and all the machinery at full pressure.
In very hot and long summers, the ice-fields are denuded even in the higher regions, and then a much greater amount of blue-green glacier-ice glances down into the valley, many knobs and depressions are laid bare which one otherwise sees only covered with white, the muddy edge of the ice comes to view with its deposit of rocks, silt, and slime, and far greater volumes of water than usual rush into the valley.
Unless the joints are wiped quite smooth, the roughness remaining will serve as a nucleus for the accumulation of hair, shreds of cloth, and other matters which will hold silt and grease, and form in time a serious obstruction. Nothing smaller than six-inch pipe should be adopted for a street sewer.
For each flood deposits its silt upon the immediate bank of the river, raising it year by year; till as in the case of the 'Levee' of the Mississippi, and probably of every one of the old fen rivers the stream runs at last between two natural dykes, at a level considerably higher than that of the now swamped and undrainable lands right and left of it.
Indian rivers are nearly always moving about in their beds, and will shift, sometimes, as much as two or three miles in a season, drowning the fields on one bank, and spreading good silt on the other. "There is no knowledge so useful," said the Mugger, "for new land means new quarrels. The Mugger knows. Oho! the Mugger knows.
The soil is sandy, overlying gravel, and covered with a thick stratum of fine mud or silt, which is only deposited on these low flats; on it grew many naturalized plants, as hemp, tobacco, jack, mango, plantain, and orange.
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