drainage-basin

Belly River drainage-basin is itself bigger, and its mountains bulk in proportion.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

McDermott Lake, the fan-handle of the Swiftcurrent drainage-basin.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

Taken as a whole, the Two Medicine drainage-basin is an epitome of

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

Imagine deep rounded valleys emerging from these cirques and twisting snakelike among enormous and sometimes grotesque rock masses which often are inconceivably twisted and tumbled, those of each drainage-basin converging fan-like to its central valley.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales,

Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the

Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales,

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope -- a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude.

Life on the Mississippi 1870