alluvion

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Rich alluvion along the Mississippi, with much excellent table land,—both timber and prairie interior.

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

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

So suitable is the rich alluvion of the river banks to the growth of these trees, that in ten years they attain to a sufficient size for felling.

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

A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John