Somewhere the depth of turf bed could be measured to 10 meters; the deepest places of this glacier lake remained filled with water while highlands grew into small islands with tight and strong soil.
有些的沼泽的深度可以达到10米,这个冰川湖最深的地方仍然充满了水,而有坚实泥土的高地则变成小岛。
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Some, particularly in theHighlandsandislands, were certainly poor, even destitute, and the clearances in the late 1840s and early 1850s were undeniably brutal and often coercive.