Half a mile up the wash the gravelly bottom changed to loose stones.

The box rested closely on the gravelly bottom, and was fastened to the posts.

Ages ago it was the gravelly bottom of a sea.

Even more perfect was it, by reason of its gravelly bottom, for another form of watermanship.

This was soon traversed, and they then found themselves on a tolerably firm, level, gravelly bottom.

There's a gravelly bottom and it's not deep.

So in this case the boys could see the fish distinctly, and also the gravelly bottom of the lake.

It was an odd, forbidding place, and the farther up the gravelly bottom they rode, the more forbidding it became.

Most people fish only the eastern side, whereof a few score yards are open, with a rocky and gravelly bottom.

There is a small rocky shoal in the center of the ground; the remainder of this piece has a gravelly bottom.

It is a ridge of rocky and gravelly bottom having depths of 35 to 50 fathoms.

It is a "blistery" ground, the presence of these growths on a rocky or gravelly bottom usually meaning good fishing.

A number of the female fish were first observed slowly passing through the clear waters and depositing their roe on the gravelly bottom.

The course of the river was a little to the north of east; it ran about five miles an hour, over a gravelly bottom.

Over the rest of the ground the average depths run from 35 to 40 fathoms over a gravelly bottom.

Here are depths of from 75 to 80 fathoms over a hard gravelly bottom, the shoalest water being some 65 fathoms.