The increasing alluvion in the river bank is causing the water to rise rapidly.    From LearnThat.org. 

The soil of the alluvion is warm, rich and productive; that of the uplands rather wet and cold, but excellent for pasture and meadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Dryden: July 2004 Archives] Reference

Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The land is an alluvion of no very ancient formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

Such is the sylva that covers the alluvion of Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

The soil is a deep alluvion, of extraordinary fertility.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference

After passing ten feet of alluvion, the auger passed through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

The hoof of my horse no longer sinks in light sand or dark alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference

On all the streams are strips of rich alluvion of exhaustless fertility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

Surface various; along the river and creeks, low alluvion; soil, loam mixed with sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)] Reference

Immediately on the banks of the Ohio and other large rivers are strips of rich alluvion soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

The bottoms are usually of a deep, sandy alluvion, intermixed with vegetable and organic matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference

The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

The American bottom adjacent to the Mississippi is rich alluvion, and divided into timber and prairie.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

Rich alluvion along the Mississippi, with much excellent table land, -- both timber and prairie interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

The quantity of alluvion on the border of the river decreased as we proceeded, and has now entirely vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811] Reference

Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

Further down, abrupt cliffs and overhanging precipices are frequently seen at the termination of the river alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference

The Missouri had overflowed its banks some time before our arrival, and on receding had left numberless pools in the alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811] Reference

We passed the mouth of La Grande Riviere, near which I first observed the appearance of prairie (5) on the alluvion of the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811] Reference

Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

It was evident, however, that here were deposited millions of acres of the richest alluvion on the globe, and in future times another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference

However, when the alluvion occurs, you will again be your land’s rightful owner.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagojo Diary Entry] Reference

Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference

Or what by th 'Oceans slow alluvion fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Poems] Reference

Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]

Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference