The river forms a number of canals which intersect the town in various directions, draining away all impurities, as well as making of the city a series of closely-connected islands.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It would, for instance, be scarcely judicious to give a man a claim on everybody else for draining his own land.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
"Our black earth," he would say, "needs a deal of draining."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae