The name meant a humid place, a reference to the formation, at that time, of extensive marshes around the Ehle River.

Large tropical forests and extensive marshes covered most of the continents.

Numberless lakes occupied the depressions, while a great many more had left evidences of their existence in the extensive marshes.

There were extensive marshes and flatlands covered by pine trees.

As water slowly drained from the lake, several extensive marshes and swamps formed.

As it nears Lake Isabella its fast waters slow and spread into extensive marshes.

Both stream systems create extensive marshes where they enter the lake.

The northern and southern ends of the lakes gradually developed into extensive marshes.

The Arctic tundra is flat and treeless, with extensive marshes and lakes.

South of Pickering, extensive marshes have been drained and exploited as fertile agricultural land.