 | Asia - 1832 - 600 pages
...oft^ and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first, interrupted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted...bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake of wiHow driven through it, at each end, which admits of its rising and falling, in accommodation to the... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...of mud, which, at first interrupted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted stalks. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake...fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust among the reeds at the bottom of the lake from the side of a boat, and turned round several times,... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...of mud, which, at first interrupted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted stalks. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake...fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust among the reeds at the bottom of the lake from the side of a boat, and turned round several times,... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 436 pages
...mud, which, at first interrupted in its descent, gradually sinks into the таек of matted stalks. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake...driven through it at each end, which admits of its rieing and falling in accommodation to the rise and fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...of mud, which, at first interrupted in its descent, erf dually sink into the mass of matted stalks. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake...rising and falling in accommodation to the rise and iidl of the warer. By means of a long pole thrust those waters take generally the shortest lines they... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...otf and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted...through it at each end, which admits of its rising or falling in accommodation to the rise or fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust amongst... | |
 | William Moorcroft, George Trebeck - Asia, Central - 1841 - 526 pages
...surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually ginks into the mass of matted roots. The bed floats, but...through it at each end, which admits of its rising or falling in accommodation to the rise or fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust amongst... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...off, and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted...through it at each end, which admits of its rising or falling in accommodation to the rise or fall of the water. By means of a long pole thrust amongst... | |
 | Syria - Asia - 1875 - 632 pages
...off, and laid upon ite surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted...roots. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a willow stake driven through it at each end, which admits i'f its rising or falling in accommodation... | |
 | William Wakefield - Jammu and Kashmir (India) - 1879 - 360 pages
...off and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted...its rising and falling in accommodation to the rise or fall of the water. Soon after passing through the multitude of these aquatic beds we enter upon... | |
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The heads of the sedges, reeds, and other plants of the float, are now cut off, and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted roots. The bed floats,... 
