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That river's spirits reject it too, and the body is driven east into " Losania ", where it is plunged in the bay of the lake near Lucerne, near Mont Pilatus – originally Mons Pileatus or " cloud-capped ", as John Ruskin pointed out in Modern Painters — whence the uncorrupting corpse rises every Good Friday to sit on the bank and wash unavailing hands.
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* Because of the river's geographical position, it is too cold in winter to support crocodiles.
Since 1902, Kansas has claimed that Colorado takes too much of the river's water, resulting in a number of lawsuits before the U. S. Supreme Court that continue to this day, generally under the name of Kansas v. Colorado.
Nevertheless, some continue to believe that the dam has too large and severe of an effect on the river's ecology to make restoration efforts worthwhile.
Zagłoba eventually decides the safest place is on the right bank of the Dnieper and, just as they are crossing, Bohun's Cossacks appear at the river's bank but it's too late to stop the runaways.
This later led to the naming of the fishing port created at the river's mouth ( Plymouth, originally named Sutton ) when the river estuary silted up too much for the monks to sail up river to Plympton any longer.
The predominant land use is low-intensity grazing of sheep and cattle: the river's flow is much too erratic to permit irrigated cropping.
Stansbury's infantry and artillery were posted too far from the river's edge to contest a crossing effectively.
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The dirt and blood that came off from his body caused the death of the river's fish, crabs, and shrimp.
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Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.
The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.
The river's average discharge is approximately 188, 000 cubic feet per second ( 5, 324 m³ / s ), and the river's flow is always constant.
While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.
The Jordan River is short, but from its mountain headwaters ( approximately 160 kilometers north of the river's mouth at the Dead Sea ) the riverbed drops from an elevation of about 3, 000 meters above sea level to more than 400 meters below sea level.
A small section of the Tumen River is also located along the border between North Korea and the Russian Federation, technically following the river's thalweg.
In summer months the river is deep enough to permit vessels with drafts of up to three meters to reach Salto del Guairá, but seasonal and other occasional conditions severely limit the river's navigational value.
The river's average annual flow is 1, 940 cubic meters per second.
For most of the river's course, the gradient is slight.
The memory is the river's bed and what is modified by the water drops is the amount of soil on the river's bed.
Near the river's mouth, the heavily irrigated Rio Grande Valley is an important agricultural region.
Near Presidio the river's discharge is frequently zero.
For example, the magnitude of a river's current, i. e. the amount of water that flows through a cross-section of the river each second, or the amount of sunlight that lands on a patch of ground each second is also a kind of flux.
The best-known of the classical Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (" My Motherland ") is called Vltava ( or The Moldau ), and is a musical depiction of the river's course through Bohemia.
* 1998: The river's history is discussed in the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost ( by Adam Hochschild ).
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First Nations used the river's valleys for the buffalo hunt, in which herds of buffalo were driven over cliffs or into valleys where they could be killed more easily with bows and arrows.
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An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.
Outposts of the Indus Valley civilization were excavated as far west as Sutkagan Dor in Baluchistan, as far north as at Shortugai on the Amu Darya ( the river's ancient name was Oxus ) in current Afghanistan, as far east as at Alamgirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and as far south as at Malwan, Surat Dist., India.
The river's basin extends from the eastern portion of Extremadura to the southern provinces of the Algarve ; the river and its tributaries flow from east to west, then south to the border towns of Vila Real de Santo António ( Portugal ) and Ayamonte ( Spain ), where it flows into the Gulf of Cádiz.
After this attack, the Roman emperor Domitian personally arrived in Moesia and reorganized it in 87 AD into two provinces, divided by the river Cebrus ( Ciabrus ): to the west Moesia Superior-Upper Moesia, ( meaning up river ) and to the east Moesia Inferior-Lower Moesia ( also called Ripa Thracia ), ( from the Danube river's mouth and then upstream ).
The river's source is just east of the village of Antingham in North Norfolk at Antingham Ponds.
The line of the river to the east of Guthram appears to have originated as a sea bank but when sedimentation and fen enclosure caused the sea no longer to reach it, the river was led away along the bank so that the sea bank became one of river's banks instead.
Today there are two principal channels that the Nile takes through the river's delta: one in the west at Rashid and one in the east at Damietta.
In 1876 the government of Prime Minister John Molteno began construction on the region's railway lines, commencing on the river's east bank, This added considerable momentum to ongoing development of the area into today ’ s thriving city of East London.
The bridge was to be built between Cheyne Walk and Battersea, at the point where the river's course turns sharply east towards Westminster, at a projected cost of £ 83, 000 ( about £ as of ).
It was at the northeast corner of the Paris Garden estate nearest to London Bridge that Francis Langley had purchased in May 1589, east of the manor house, and four hundred and twenty-six feet from the river's edge.
Parts of the Housatonic Valley Wildlife Management Area and October Mountain State Forest line the river's east banks there.
An unusual clause in the 1664 colonial land grant that outlined the territory the proprietors of New Jersey would receive reads: " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river " rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.
The Hutch continues on, crossing over the Hutchinson River and passing through Pelham Bay Park before following the river's east bank into Westchester County and the border village of Pelham Manor, where an exit leads to US 1.
The river's total fall is ( from the confluence of its east and west branches ).
It can be translated either as " the beyond place " ( as in beyond, or east of, the Hudson ) or as " the stony place " ( perhaps because the river's stony bottom is usually exposed except in spring, or perhaps because local soils are so stony ).
A portion of the river's water is diverted to the east side of the continental divide for irrigation and drinking water via the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project.
St. Andrews Harbour is situated at the mouth of the St. Croix River and the town sits on the river's east bank at its discharge point into the bay.
The route description below follows the river's flow from west to east.
The river's headwaters include Victoria's highest mountain, Mount Bogong, and wind their way north-west about 100 kilometres, gradually slowing before joining the Murray east of Albury.
The river's main stem begins at the confluence of its east and west forks near Cave Junction in southern Josephine County.
It is located south of center in the San Fernando Valley, about eight miles east of the river's official source in the western end of the Valley.
The river's course forms a large arc through central Illinois, first flowing east into Champaign County, Illinois, south through Mahomet, then west through Monticello and Decatur, then turning northwest to flow along the north side of Springfield.
Just north of Sparta, the river passes under Highway 84, which continues along the river's east bank.
Several of the river's tributaries originate atop the Cumberland Plateau, including Whetstone Creek, which is part of the river's headwaters, Bridge Creek, which empties into the river just south of the Putnam-White county line, Doe Creek, which joins the river near the Big Spring community, and Wildcat Creek, which empties into the river near Sparta, and is noted for its waterfall visible from Highway 70 east of the town.
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