Where was that great land, off which great rivers ran to deposit our coal-measures in their deltas?

Marked a tree: 120 solid Delta this being the 120th camp since starting from the Victoria River.

We passed through the wonderful Delta to-day, and certainly the people looked more comfortable than those of Alexandria.

" The Meuse and the Rhine form numerous mouths, and their deltas are low and marshy.

But he was none the less a striking personage to these simple fisherfolk of the great Yukon Delta, who, all their lives, had stared out on Bering Sea and in that time seen but two white men,the census enumerator and a lost Jesuit priest.

and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?

Basey is situated on the delta of the river, which is named after it.

We have already noticed the river of Good Signs, as being probably the northern mouth of the Delta of the Zambeze, now called Quilimane, from a fort of that name on its banks.

"A rencontre took place last week," says the New Orleans Delta, "between the overseer of Mr. A. Collins (a planter in our vicinity) and one of the negroes.

The five ships were sleek craft with a highly swept delta wing design.

Indeed, in every region of the globe between the two Arctic circles there are swamps and marshes, steeping-tanks of hemp and flax, large deltas where salt and fresh waters mix, and yet there is no malaria there, although putrid decomposition is on every side.

It lay midway between the cultivated delta on the west and what is now the Suez Canal on the east.

" Historical students have long been familiar with the fact that late in the Greek period the Jews of Egypt built a temple to Jehovah at Leontopolis, in the Delta (cf.

Every scientific agriculturist knows that erosion is one of the chief causes of loss in soil fertility and that in the basins and deltas of streams and rivers there is going to waste enough muck to make all of our land rich.

Amid the wheat fields of the Punjab, under the tamarinds of the Ganges plain, among the lotus pools and bamboo clusters of the Bengal deltas, and on the black cotton fields of the Deccan are the roads and the villages, the villages and the roads.

During the many centuries that the Mississippi has been sweeping on its course, it has formed that long point of land known as the Delta, and shallowed the water in the Gulf of Mexico for more than two hundred miles.

The Irawaddy sweeps off from Burmah sixty-two cubic feet of earth in every second of time, on an average Sometimes vast amount of earthy materials is transferred from one locality to another by river agency, as is the case in the deltas of the Nile and the Mississippi.

BANGA, the Hindu name for the Delta of the Ganges. BAN`GALORE (180), the largest town in Mysore, and the capital; stands high; is manufacturing and trading.

CUTTACK (47), capital of a district in S. of Bengal, at the apex of the delta formed by the Mahanuddy; noted for its gold and silver filigree work.

It is larger than Wales, and comprises a hilly inland tract and an alluvial plain formed by the deltas of the Mahanadi, Brahmani, and Baitarani Rivers, well irrigated, and producing great crops of rice, wheat, pulse, and cotton.

The distances in the Louisiade and New Guinea are calculated with the meridian distance of the Sextant Rock, Cape York, assumed to be 8 degrees 40 minutes 50 seconds West of Sydney, to adapt them to the original delta of the North-east Coast of Australia. 1849 :

W.H.O. Booby Island : 9 19 51 : W : 141 54 56 : 10 35 56 : delta n : -.

Another Semite named Yanhamu not only had control of the storehouses of grain in the eastern part of the Nile Delta, but also directed the Egyptian rule of Palestine.

This probably lay in the eastern boundary of the Biblical land of Goshen, which seems to have included the Wady Tumilat and to have extended westward to the Nile delta.

This city was founded by Ramses II, who during the first twenty years of his reign, developed and colonized the territory east of the Nile delta including the Biblical land of Goshen.