"Debouchure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... containing only a thread of water trickling along a waste of sand, sometimes three or four hundred yards wide, and at intervals loosing itself and running under the surface. Should the northern branch which was seen to join amongst the ana-branches near its debouchure prove to be the larger stream, that followed by the party might still retain the name of "the Ferguson," given to it by the Brothers, in honor of the governor of Queensland. It receives Cockburn Creek, ...
— The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine |
