a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves

an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

… have, by the intrigues of an ignorant, presumptuous, speculating faction, been absorbed in the vortex of the great continental power; have been eccentricated from their former orbit, and must now perform their future …

The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen.