Crossword-Solution: LOWLYING 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Indeed, such mills were used pretty extensively; they were generally erected at the mouth of a stream, and in that way the river bed made the reservoir, and even when they were erected in other situations, those were of a kind suitable for the purpose, that is, lowlying lands were selected, and were embanked to form reservoirs.

The western bank of the Yenesej consists, like the innumerable islands of the river, for the most part of lowlying and marshy stretches of land, which at the season of the spring floods are overflowed by the river and abundantly manured with its mud.

The eastern border of Umpog Swamp is determined by a ridge of limestone which separates the swamp from lowlying land beyond.

The earliest spelling is, however, Holland, and it is more probable that it means lowlying-land (hol = hollow), a derivation which is equally applicable to the district in Lincolnshire which bears the same name.

The lowlying country about the base of the hills is mostly made up of schistose micaceous rocks, a quartzose mica schist predominating.