 | Commerce - 1848 - 696 pages
...of which are composed of a marsh similar to those above described. The streams are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores...marshes, by their being thinly covered with a sward grass, by walking on which evinced the existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under that.... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1848 - 726 pages
...composed of a marsh similar to those above described. The streams are generally narrow, and very Jeep compared with their width, the shores and bottoms...marshes, by their being thinly covered with a sward grass, by walking on which evinced the existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under that.... | |
 | 1848 - 700 pages
...described. The streams are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the •horee and bottoms of which are, with a very few exceptions,...marshes, by their being thinly covered with a sward grass, by walking on which evinced the existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under that.... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 706 pages
...width, the shores and bottoms of which are, with a very few exceptions, swampy beyond description. «nd it is with the utmost difficulty that a place can...marshes, by their being thinly covered with a sward grass, by walking on which evinced the existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under that.... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - History - 1873 - 138 pages
...of which are composed of a marsh similar to the above described. The streams are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - History - 1873 - 152 pages
...are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores and bottoms of which arc {with a very few exceptions) swampy beyond description;...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Michigan - 1873 - 756 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water, or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
 | James J. Hogaboam - Bean Creek (Mich. and Ohio) - 1876 - 160 pages
...is with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. A. circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited...existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step,... | |
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... covering, which sinks from six to eighteen inches from the pressure of the foot at every step, and at the same time rising before and behind the person passing over. The margins of many of the lakes and streams are in a similar situation, and in many... 
