The countryside was now a prosperous well-watered land, populated by peasant farms.

Parts of the highlands consisting of relatively flat and, by Australian standards, well-watered land were developed for agricultural and pastoral uses.

Aksum also benefited from its well-watered agricultural lands, which were further exploited by the use of well-designed dams, wells and reservoirs.

Unsuitability for cultivation is part of "ranch-ness": Mr. Pabst said no one would call a cattle operation on the fertile, well-watered land east of the Mississippi a ranch.

The wealthier Ismailis of Salamiyah have fertile and well-watered land and are regarded as clannish, proud, and tough.

When Federal grazing fees are low, well-watered private land and large tracts of Federal land complement each other.

They were twenty-seven cubits thick and taller than the tallest palm trees of this fertile and well-watered land.

By comparison, as a New Zealander would say, this well-watered land was "all good".

Added to which it is endowed with oil, timber, minerals and well-watered land.

After 1759 state farms were established, "especially in the vicinity of Urumchi, where there was fertile, well-watered land and few people."