They were fed with hay during the annual inundation, and at other times tethered in meadows of green clover.

The existence of Lower Egypt depending upon the annual inundation, the rise of the river was observed with general anxiety.

In Bengal the crop is particularly subject to be destroyed by the annual inundation of the river, if it occurs earlier than usual.

What must have been the state of those low countries of Guiana that now undergo the effects of annual inundations?