The bottom is a bright green oasis through which flows the rapid Majes River, too deep to be forded even in the dry season.

The bottom was sun-baked mud and dry stones which, together, formed about as unpleasant a combination for walking over as could well be imagined, especially since it was absolutely necessary to move without a sound.

Each gift was wrapped in white tissue paper and tied with old-rose ribbon, and they were all presented on a big tray, the bottom of which was rose-flowered cretonne under glass.

Lieutenant Berryman of the United States Navy had taken a series of soundings and stated that the sea-bottom between Newfoundland and Ireland was a comparatively level plateau covered with soft ooze, and at a depth of about two thousand fathoms.

4, giving a cross-section of the Yarrow dam, in which the bottom of the trench is there only 85 ft. below the ground surface.

Soon after the most terrible thunder reechoed through the woods, the plains and the valleys; the rains fell from the skies like cataracts; foaming torrents rolled down the sides of the mountain; the bottom of the valley became a sea; the plat of ground on which the cottages were built, a little island: and the entrance of this valley a sluice, along which rushed precipitately the moaning waters, earth, trees, and rocks.

NOTE.It is wrong to teach that the top of a map or plan is always north; as often as not, the bottom is north, in plans especially.

This is easily understood, if we remember that the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is by no means a stable foundation for such a structure.

We attempted to ford it, and had got into the middle of the stream before we discovered that the bottom was quicksands.

In the haven of Truxillo, there is a lake of fresh water, the bottom of which is good hard salt; and in the Andes, beyond Xauxa, there is a fresh water river which flows over a bottom of white salt.

Bottom must be a "feature" in the procession, and there was no ass's head!

The bottom of the valley was a bed of glorious grass, blazoned with flowers, and redolent of all vernal smells.

Axcester lies on the western side and mostly at the foot of a low hill set accurately in the centre of a ring of hills slightly higher-the raised bottom of a saucer would be no bad simile.

Between Round Head (in latitude 20 degrees 28 minutes 30 seconds) and Cape Conway is a bay, where there appeared to be good anchorage out of the strength of the tides; and to the north of Round Head is another bay, the bottom of which is an isthmus of about a mile wide, separating it from an inlet to the westward of Cape Conway.

Then another turn or two in the street, and the bottom of the Treppe is approachedthe great staircase which winds upward to the Oberland, in whose crevices grow masses of foliage, and whose easy ascent need not be feared by any one, for the steps are broad and low.

Then another turn or two in the street, and the bottom of the Treppe is approachedthe great staircase which winds upward to the Oberland, in whose crevices grow masses of foliage, and whose easy ascent need not be feared by any one, for the steps are broad and low.

The yellow light touched the other side of the valley, and the narrow bottom, through which shining water ran, was a belt of cool dark-green.

It is truly a solitude, the road even making it appear still more so; the bottom of the valley is mostly smooth and level, the brook not noisy: everything is simple and undisturbed, and while we passed through it the whole place was shady, cool, clear, and solemn.

The bottom of this was a considerable distance below him, and he did not descend into it, but he saw plainly that it had recently contained water, for pools and puddles were to be seen everywhere.

" Cain and Abel were English farmers just as truly as Bottom and his fellows were English craftsmen.

The bottom of Aiton Bay is shoal and apparently terminates in an inlet or creek; at low water the tide left a considerable space dry that appeared to extend from shore to shore.

The boats were gone, with the exception of one, the bottom of which had been stove, and it was certain that the crew had abandoned the vessel.

Beyond this valley we passed a circular basin, which has no outlet, so that in winter the bottom of it must be a lake.

But, wherever the bottom was stony, we could see huge prickly sea- urchins, huger brainstone corals, round and gray, and branching corals likewise, such as, when cleaned, may be seen in any curiosity shop.

" He now travelled for a day or two longer, and then he came to a great black mountain, near the bottom of which was an opening like the mouth of a cave.