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One of Brown’s fortes was damming streams or small rivers to create meandering lakes and ponds that read as great rivers where none flowed.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016

On leaving the settled districts they at once found themselves in the barren country that was damming back the eastward flow of settlement.

From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest