Bayous

Examples

• Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bayous were soon filled and much of the country was overflowed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Four bridges had to be built across bayous, two of them each over six hundred feet long, making about two thousand feet of bridging in all. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• North of the Yazoo was all a marsh, heavily timbered, cut up with bayous, and much overflowed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Three large bayous had to be crossed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Inputed by Bennett