alluvion

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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 Peck, John Mason

The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower Valley.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

The changes of property in Bengal, by alluvion, are equally attended to.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The American bottom adjacent to the Mississippi is rich alluvion, and divided into timber and prairie.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason