Exempel på marsh

• Under his direction, marshes were drained, a hospital founded, courts of judicature set up, and an assembly of landowners convened to regulate local taxes and other sources of revenue.

• We have lovely names and fine countryside: wild fells and river valleys, wild places, wildlife and cityscapes, rich farmland, marshes and the sea.

• We must also consider the mangroves and the salt marshes.

• The marshes that surround my constituency are constantly threatened by developers' plans—road plans, for instance.

• Early reports that up to 500,000 people are sheltering in the marshes are probably wrong, but there are many people there—perhaps between 30,000 and 100,000.

• Is there much to lead them to build new houses, to establish new industries, drain more marshes?

• I have brought back tapes, photographs and videos taken at great risk of life and limb by people deep inside the heart of the marshes.

• Coursing used to take place in the fields and on the marshes.

• I saw a kingfisher, in all its beauty, moving about over the rivers and marshes and lakes by my home.

• Here we are on an island between marshes and the river and on a site which has been a palace for 1,000 years.

• They drained marshes, irrigated desert land, and developed the country, large parts of which had been allowed to go to waste.

• We have other details which have come straight from those still in the marshes.

• The proposed areas consist of a series of estuaries with extensive mudflats and associated salt marshes.

• The most obvious aspect of coastal losses on many estuaries is erosion of salt marshes.

• The marshes in my area could be at risk.