The seawater once covering 26,000 square miles vanishes into desert.
Anguilla is an arid, flat Caribbean island surrounded on all sides by seawater.
And for that, it turned to the one resource it has in abundance—aside from seawater.
The seawater was higher than the fire hydrants, and the firefighters had to duck down into it to connect the hose.
Five feet of seawater tore through the streets of the low-lying Brooklyn neighborhood Monday night.
It is also worth asking why fresh water freezes, but seawater does not.
It is stained with seawater, and emits the musty smell which tells of immersion.
It looked like spirits or vinegar, but was, as I discovered, seawater for the aquarium.
This could, however, only now be looked upon as lost; for the seawater must have spoilt everything eatable.
A few biscuits, made savory by soaking them in seawater, a tuft of samphire gathered from the beach, and an apple for the dessert.