Just before a cottage, go right at a green marker-post and follow a path across marshy ground to a gate in the fence to your right. |
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I breakfasted, put on my waders, grabbed a couple of rods and commenced to walk the marshy mile or two to the Khuder. |
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The water meadows on the outskirts of Minehead sparkle under sunny skies, full of the promise of lush marshy greens and hidden meadow orchids. |
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The river is more a stream, eventually splitting into marshy islets and after such a rainless spring was bone dry for a mile of so. |
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The seaboard of Capernaum in which Peter dwelt is said by travelers to be a peculiarly damp, marshy, aguish, feverish place. |
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The land is nearly on a level with the water, the ground is marshy, and the sewers all open. |
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The remainder consists of fertile coastal and riverine lowlands, including a narrow sandy and marshy coastal plain. |
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Species of arrowgrass that poison livestock are widely distributed in marshy pastures and native grass hay areas throughout the United States. |
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The area is important because it has a wide variety of grassland types, from wet and marshy to dry, and a diverse range of flowers and rushes. |
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In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest. |
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The low-lying, marshy land has been improved by drainage over the past generation. |
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Breeding habitat is mostly inland around low-lying marshy areas near lakes. |
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But I play along, as we follow a bike path past a tank farm, then along the marshy shore of the bay. |
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For much of the Saxon period it was probably fairly wide and marshy, perhaps acting as a separator between Westwyk and Conesford. |
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Several small burns rushing towards the river are easily crossed, and the vegetation is symbolic of marshy land, with bog myrtle plentiful. |
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The induction of amphibious vehicles for military applications has increased the manoeuvrability of troops in marshy lands and rivers. |
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The vehicles were chosen for their ability to cope in difficult marshy terrain. |
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Hilly, wooded, and marshy regions, marginal from a settler point of view, were capable of functioning as core areas of native lordship. |
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It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland. |
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Further, large tracts of its marshy breeding grounds were rendered unsuitable as they were drained and cleared for cultivation. |
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The betel vine grows well in marshy lands, with good rainfall but can be coaxed into growing in drier climes with profuse watering. |
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Cross marshy ground to a cairn, and after 300 yards you will reach the trig point on top of Auchineden Hill. |
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She taps on the manual typewriter, lives in the country house and walks the marshy fields. |
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Next, there's a marshy wetland crossed neatly by an X of mathematical-looking boardwalks. |
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The coastal plain is low and broad, with areas of sand between the marshy river valleys. |
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Interspersed are areas dominated by mulefat, and low marshy areas dominated by bulrush and cattails. |
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If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served. |
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These birds take refuge in hedges and wooded areas and at dusk fly out to feed in marshy ground. |
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The orchids occurred in wet marshy swales and in open margins of wet shrubby thickets and ponds. |
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Some of these axes were even deposited in a marshy basin immediately north of the henge complex. |
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Variously known an 'intermittent fever' or 'ague,' malaria had been endemic in the marshy, fenny lowlands of Europe and Africa for millennia. |
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A stretch of damp marshy grassland containing rush species and occasional cuckooflowers runs along the western perimeter of the Southern Meadow. |
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That this road was atop a ridge equally suggests its origin at a time when lower ground, to the east, was marshy and impassable. |
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These marshy channels are the invariable point of any hunted boar. |
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Greater White-fronted Geese nest on marshy ponds in the tundra or taiga. |
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A patchwork of hedgerowed fields grazed by Friesian cows swept down from the house to a marshy buttercup-dappled plateau below, where the river ran beside the railway track. |
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Houses included piled structures with stone hearths set in marshy ground. |
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She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great. |
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Krishna Pandit did the same and was extremely happy when the snake guided him through the swampy and marshy land, until he reached the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree. |
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They were marching steadily across the marshy northlands, their pace slowed by the necessity of watching their feet for sinkholes and mud puddles. |
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They nest in the low Arctic, on tundra ponds with marshy shores and bogs. |
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While many observers noted the unhealthfulness of the marshy tidewater zone, they also emphasized the richness of the land and its potential for economic development. |
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Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill. |
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The area has been inhabited since Neolithic times, though large areas would have been marshy and contained Martin Mere. |
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The two Marsilea species existed in marshy habitat, and Azolla pinnata occurred as a free floating hydrophyte. |
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The horse leech is also quite common in the garden, in damp, marshy areas and can be found under stones and logs. |
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In the Netherlands, Belgium and in East Anglia the littoral is low and marshy. |
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During Roman times, the land surrounding the rivers Ouse and Foss was marshy, making the site easy to defend. |
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The same is true of the settlements along the rivers Ouse, Trent, Witham, Nene and along the marshy lower Thames. |
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This ultramafic rock also forms a very infertile soil which covers the flat and marshy heaths of the interior of the peninsula. |
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Sections could be supported over marshy ground on rafted or piled foundations. |
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Although the marshy terrain minimized casualties, the morale of the Jacobites began to suffer. |
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To the southwest is a broad and marshy saddle leading onto Green Crag and the moorlands of Birker Fell, the ongoing watershed. |
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The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides. |
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It then crosses a marshy area and climbs up to the shoulder of Little Ingleborough before following the ridge to the summit. |
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To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. |
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The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews. |
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Several are even native to the West, including Darlingtonia on page 58, which grows wild in marshy areas at the California-Oregon border. |
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It is possibly a reference to a mound or slightly raised place in an otherwise marshy region. |
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Conwy Morfa, a marshy spit of land on the west side of the estuary, was probably the location where golf was first played on Welsh soil. |
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Despite the aridity, the presence of many lagoons makes this region very marshy and a suitable breeding ground for malaria mosquitos. |
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Notably, Salisbury is situated between the chalk of Salisbury Plain and marshy flood plains. |
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Due to its marshy character, the Unstrut was not navigable for ships for a long time. |
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Communication was maintained by a road that had been constructed over the marshy head of the Horn. |
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Guinea is crossed by a multitude of water streams, many of them navigable rivers, and a large part of its territory is marshy and flooded. |
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Where lakes and swamps are present, the water is marshy and generally unpotable. |
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Notable areas include De Slufter, where the tide comes in and meets the dunes, forming a marshy environment rich in both fauna and flora. |
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Some late Roman sources also reveal the existence of fishermen on the islands in the original marshy lagoons. |
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Venice is a city of small islands, enhanced during the Middle Ages by the dredging of soils to raise the marshy ground above the tides. |
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A marshy region south of the Humber known as the Isle of Axholme was also included. |
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Their factory heralded the beginning of the area's transformation from marshy farmland into a major industrial zone. |
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Great Dodd and Stybarrow Dodd throw out long ridges to the east, enclosing the marshy valley of Deepdale. |
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The inner side of a machair is often wet or marshy, and may contain lochs. |
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Harold's forces deployed in a small, dense formation at the top of steep slope, with their flanks protected by woods and marshy ground in front of them. |
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Little Langdale Tarn is a natural tarn within a marshy area of the valley. |
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Military camps were not to be set up in any sort of marshy region. |
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Researchers suggest that a marshy area near the White House that was used for the disposal of human waste could have given rise to paratyphoid or enteric fever. |
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On the west, across the marshy trench of Moasdale is Hard Knott. |
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