The Amazon with its tributaries forms the greatest of all navigable fluvial systems.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
It has been surmised or ascertained that some may be antidiluvian: although those in deep alluvial soils, near streams, and connected with graves, may have been buried by men, or fluvial inundations.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
They would remember that he had always held the theory that, even in quartz mining, the deposits were always found near water, past or present, with signs of fluvial erosion!
"From Sand Hill to Pine"
Bret Harte