Which preposition to use with delta
Out in the broad, swampy delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, the little wanderers have been known to build their combs in a bunch of rushes, or stiff, wiry grass, only slightly protected from the weather, and in danger every spring of being carried away by floods.
We passed through the wonderful Delta to-day, and certainly the people looked more comfortable than those of Alexandria.
It forms almost the boundary of the fertile region of the Delta on the eastern side.
Thus, while the pilgrim fathers of the Mississippi Delta with Gallic recklessness were taking wives and moot-wives from the ill specimens of three races, arose, with the church's benediction, the royal house of the Fusiliers in Louisiana.
E. The river named Barbasini is above eighty-five miles S.S.E. from Cape Verd, measuring to its northern entrance, and forms a small island or delta at its mouth, having another entrance about eighteen miles farther south.
It carries great quantities of silt which goes to form and augment the delta through which it issues.
Six times since the day of the Skinners there had been outbreaks of giant ratseach time from the south-west London sewers, and now they were as much an accepted fact there as tigers in the delta by Calcutta.... The man's brother had bought a paper in a heedless sort of way at Sandling, and at last this chanced to catch the eye of the released man.
The southern end of this area was made available first, and the hills preceded the delta in popularity for cotton culture.