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Many people depend on mangrove swamps for wood for construction, craft materials, medicines and honey.
They passed the great papyrus swamps the next day and rounded the point which marked the edge of the Canopus mouth of the Nile.
Giant shovelnose rays lay their eggs inshore around atolls, mangrove swamps and estuaries.
He was a true Georgia redneck, from the piney woods and swamps of southeastern Georgia.
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
The pygmy hippo, which is the smallest species, occurs in West Africa, especially in or near rivers, lakes, and swamps.
The country will also replant and restore mangrove swamps to act as natural shields against strong waves.
In winter, they are found in woodland ponds and swamps, as well as coastal estuaries, bays, and inlets.
The lowlands include savannas, swamps, tropical rainforests, and semi-deserts.
The backcountry swamps of the area hold a special interest for him, and many of his paintings depict this unique wilderness.
He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps.
The swamps include sago palms, mangroves, and patches of tropical rain forest.
The mangrove swamps, tidal flats and sandy isles around the lake become their home for two full months.
Offshore drilling, they argued, would damage coral reefs and mangrove swamps and threaten endangered sea life.
He ordered the nearby swamps and marshes in the city of Salinus to be drained, in order to prevent an unknown pestilence, probably malaria.
The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state.
Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and perches for singing.
Depending on the species, they may be found in freshwater, brackish, or marine areas including estuaries, swamps, marshes, and tidepools.
They can live in freshwater and coastal marine habitats, including rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and estuaries.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Man was made by tiki, who took red clay, and kneaded it with his own blood, or with the red water of swamps.
The bottom of the dry swamps was covered with a couch grass, which, like all the other grasses, was partly withered.
There, on the contrary, we encountered the only two swamps at all difficult.
Protopterus is represented by three African species, which inhabit rivers and swamps from the Senegal to the Zambezi.
In lowlands, it is occasionally found in year-round swamps with cypress, and in the hills on dry slopes with oaks and hickories.
In the swamps bordering the river grew quantities of a variety of sago palm called by the natives Songo.
Where a few years ago were acres of woodland, swamps or brambly pastures, are now well-graded streets lined with pleasant houses.
This was doubtless the result of my evening travels through the swamps and lowlands of the Hoosier State.
The massasauga is the rattlesnake occasionally found in the swamps from western New York to Nebraska, but it is rare.
It thus aids in maintaining the balance of life, and cleanses the swamps of miasmata, thus purifying the air we breathe.
Day after day they pushed forward, skirting at times the edge of miasmic swamps, and generally sticking to the desolate plain.
The Indians informed him that all the region below consisted of dismal, endless, uninhabitable swamps.
Usually about a foot high, the hardy and ubiquitous purple grass of Naraka grew far more lushly around the edges of the swamps.
In the swamps of Niort six hundred children of Nantes were rounded up, massacred, and atrociously mutilated.
The cypress or white cedar of our swamps has furnished individuals 800 or 900 years old.
It is not as large a snake as the water moccasin, nor does it like the swamps.
Taking his otago contingent with him, he left the pa under cover of night, and made good his escape through the gloomy swamps.
When we had passed through Fukushima we were in Ibaraki, a characteristic feature of which is swamps.
Its best development is on the Sierra Nevada mountains, where swamps are few, and the incense cedar avoids them.
But thirteen years have sufficed to bog the German movement in the swamps of parliamentarianism.
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