alluvion
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I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion!
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro
They dwelt chiefly in the “dense, dank forests” found growing on the low alluvion of the Atlantic coast.
From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin
Finally, in the ravine called Ab-é-pardöma, I discovered in the alluvion some stone instruments presenting very ancient paleolithic characters.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
Louisiana, being chiefly alluvion, furnishes only two specimens, sulphuret of antimony, and meteoric iron ore.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
The alluvion between these rivers, protected from inundation by levees along the streams, is divided by many bayous, of which the Tensas, with its branch the Macon, is the most important.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
