At length when he looked at the gauge glass he found he could not see the line that marked the water-level.

It is very doubtful whether the Turkish General Staff gave the cavalry credit for being able to move across the Plain in the middle of November when the wadis are absolutely dry and the water-level in the wells is lower than at any other period of the year.

Many houses stand below water-level, and in digging foundations I have sometimes seen the black sludge of old marshes squirting up through the holes, and even bringing with it embedded reeds that perhaps were growing when Shakespeare acted there.

They are generally attributed by scientific men to atmospheric disturbances, which, by increasing or diminishing the atmospheric pressure, produce a corresponding rise or fall in the water-level.

It was the face of the great glacier of the interior, which here presented an unbroken perpendicular fronta sweep of solid glassy wall, which rose three hundred feet above the water-level, with an unknown depth below it.

The heavy clouds rolling off the sodden worldthey must have indeed been heavy clouds, nimbus of the first wateras they had raised the world's water-level 250 feet per day during "the flood" ... surely a record output!