Dredges expanded mining operations because they were effective inswampyareas, but this new technology also required huge amounts of capital and extensive management capabilities.
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On the eastern side of the river the country isswampyand covered with coarse grass.
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The party ran into muddy ground and thenswampyclay.
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The northern portion of the basin is then transformed into a huge saltern, and the southern portion becomesswampy.
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The gap is perpetuated by the tension between university-based theoretical delivery and the "swampylowland" of the practice placement.
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The area receives a mean annual rainfall of 800 to 1200 mm (fig. 1) and is characterized by manyswampyareas.
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Swampyconditions made large, centralized settlements impracticable, at least until substantial drainage projects were begun in the 20th century.
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Into their depressions sands and gravels had been deposited by glacial action to createswampyareas through which wandered brooks and creeks.
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These islands are sandy, low-lying andswampy.
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Swampyterrain and the lack of a paved road until the 1950s restricted travel in and out of the county.
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I know men who were there twenty-five years ago who have married and are still there, even in theswampycountries.
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This particular section goes overswampyground and contains a lot of bridging.
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These will provide stronger buttresses, even more drainage, and the replacement of theswampysubstance on the valley floor by free draining material.
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That shows the veryswampycondition of the country in those days.
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