Which preposition to use with delta

of Occurrences 46%

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.

to Occurrences 3%

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

on Occurrences 3%

It forms almost the boundary of the fertile region of the Delta on the eastern side.

with Occurrences 2%

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.

at Occurrences 2%

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.

through Occurrences 1%

It carries great quantities of silt which goes to form and augment the delta through which it issues.

by Occurrences 1%

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.

in Occurrences 1%

The southern end of this area was made available first, and the hills preceded the delta in popularity for cotton culture.

Which preposition to use with  delta