The Murray in February is a streamless ditch, which in America, if known and named at all, would rank as a tenth-rate river. |
On the southern flanks, the towers are cut by a labyrinthine system of very narrow gullies separated by flat-floored, mainly streamless, depressions opening out on to the plain. |
When it receives so much that it can hold no more, this streamless basin develops a full-bore flood. |
The karst of Mexico varies from the streamless, low-relief plain of the Yucatán Peninsula to the high plateaus of the interior with their large dolines and deep vertical caves. |
The ground is dry, streamless, hard-baked and cracked, and shows a nitrous efflorescence in many places. |