Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . ch and productive soil, and this soil is producedby the successive inundations of the river. The water, at the timeof these overflows, is always turbid, and when it subsides, it leavesa fine and very rich sediment over the whole surface of the land,in consequence of which the crops of the ensuing season are farricher and more abundant than they otherwise would have been. Ordinarily, too, these floods come in the wi
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . ch and productive soil, and this soil is producedby the successive inundations of the river. The water, at the timeof these overflows, is always turbid, and when it subsides, it leavesa fine and very rich sediment over the whole surface of the land,in consequence of which the crops of the ensuing season are farricher and more abundant than they otherwise would have been. Ordinarily, too, these floods come in the winter or in the spring,when there are no crops upon the ground to be damaged by as to the buildings of the farmers—their houses, their barns,and their granaries—they usually take care to place them onground high enough to be out of the reach of the water. 12S INUNDATIONS. Floating ice in a winter freshet. The jam. Besides, a winter inundation breaks up the ice which covers thesurface of the river, and then the great blocks of ice are sweptalong with prodigious force and in dreadful confusion against ev-ery thing that comes in their way This engraving gives a view.
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