The weather grew hot and oppressive, and over the lowlands of Virginia there brooded a sullen thundercloud.

So rapid was the advance of Charles, that he traversed the Lowlands of Scotland, and the northern counties in England, without meeting a single foe.

Of course the snow on the lower tributaries of the rivers is first melted, then that on the higher fountains most exposed to sunshine, and about a month later the cooler, shadowy fountains send down their treasures, thus allowing the main trunk streams nearly six weeks to get their waters hurried through the foot-hills and across the lowlands to the sea.

John Eady of the South Carolina lowlands by a like service in the War for Independence earned a somewhat similar recognition which he retained throughout a very long life.

Both of these routes avoid the highlands between Mt. Salcantay and Mt. Veronica and the lowlands between the villages of Piri and Huadquiña.

Perhaps it has helped, likewise, to make the soil of all the lowlands in these islesand that is, the waves of the sea.

At first he saw only some lowlands on which twinkled the last gleams from the lighthouses.

ARRAN (4), largest island in the Firth of Clyde, in Buteshire; a mountainous island, highest summit Goatfell, 2866 ft, with a margin of lowland round the coast; nearly all the property of the Duke of Hamilton, whose seat is Brodick Castle.

She was leaning back against the column and looking dreamily out across the lowlands toward the starlit sea.

The rain had filled the lowland with water.

This victory placed the Lowlands at the mercy of the conqueror.

The lowlands near the coast were settled by Englishmen and by French Huguenots, but the form of government was purely English.

The sun was high in the heavens when we ceased talking of these matters and saw in a lowland before us a farmhouse, where we stopped.

The valley narrowed, the lowlands behind us spread out broader, and in half an hour more we were threading a narrow pass, between stony hills, overgrown with ilex, myrtle, and dwarf oak.

Water freezes in the lowlands during the dry winter season, in June and July, and frost may occur any night in the year above 13,000 feet, but in general the climate may be said to be neither warm nor cold.

"Once these Egrets covered the southern lowlands like drifting snowfor they are beautifully white.

In the oldest districts of all, however, the lowlands about the Chesapeake, the process went on to a final stage in which the bulk of the planters, after exhausting the soil for staple purposes, departed westward and were succeeded in their turn by farmers, partly native whites and free negroes and partly Northerners trickling in, who raised melons, peanuts, potatoes, and garden truck for the Northern city markets.