On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

Alexander McDonnell, governor of Red River, and James Bird, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, ordered such `` sundry articles '' to a value of Ab4,500.

If the Onemen Bay is considered part of the river, it also receives the Velikaya River ( Chukotka ) from the south and the Kanchalan River from the north.

In May 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed sailed through Chesapeake Bay and thirty miles up the James River to a parcel of densely wooded, swamp land.

The rain which falls on the southeastern slopes drains into the Chambal, and so into the Bay of Bengal ; that which falls on the northwest side into the Luni River, which discharges itself into the Rann of Kutch.

The constituency is in south Wales, situated on the right bank of the River Afan, near its mouth in Swansea Bay.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

** Bay River, a river in this locality

The Trent River is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a canal connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and then Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

Aboukir Bay is a coastal indentation across, stretching from the village of Abu Qir in the west to the town of Rosetta to the east, where one of the mouths of the River Nile empties into the Mediterranean.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

On January 17, 1725, the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which then claimed territories west of the Merrimack River, granted the Concord area as the Plantation of Penacook.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

Delaware is bounded to the north by Pennsylvania ; to the east by the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean ; and to the west and south by Maryland.

A ridge about in elevation extends along the western boundary of the state and separates between the watersheds that feed Delaware River and Bay to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

He was the first European known to sight and enter the Congo River and to explore the West African coast between Cape St. Catherine and Cape Cross, almost from the equator to Walvis Bay in Namibia.

Each of these is further divided by two lesser rivers – the River Tolka running northwest from Dubin Bay, and the River Dodder running southwest from the mouth of the Liffey.

The border came to be understood as being along the shore of the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill van Kull, and Arthur Kill.

Major geographical features on Leeward Point include Mohomilla Bay and the Guantánamo River.

The city is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

Among the largest businesses located in Cambridge was the firm of Carter's Ink Company, whose neon sign long adorned the Charles River and which was for many years the largest manufacturer of ink in the world.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

In 1772 he, his cousin Remember Baker, and his brothers Ira, Heman, and Zimri, formed the Onion River Company, which was basically a land-speculation organization devoted to purchasing land in and around the Winooski River ( known then as the Onion River ).

He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest Fur Company ( in which Canadians had a part ), in order to control fur trading in the Columbia River and Great Lakes areas.

The Grand River goes through the outskirts of the park, the Penn Central Transportation Company railroad track also goes through the park.

By 1853, the Merrimack River Lumber Company was operating.

The reaches of the upper Petitcodiac River valley then came under the control of the Philadelphia Land Company and in 1766 Pennsylvania Dutch settlers arrived to re-establish the pre-existing farming community at Le Coude.

Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was also in service along the Ayeyarwady River in the 20th century, until 2003.

* 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Hudson named the river the Mauritius River and was covertly attempting to find the Northwest Passage for the Dutch East India Company.

It founded the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, an emergency yard on the banks of the Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of 1941, building 243 ships in all, including 186 Liberties.

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

* 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant ( later known as Appleton Edison Light Company ) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

* August 24 – In India, the fort and trading settlement of Sutanuti-which later becomes Calcutta-is founded on the Hooghly River by the English East India Company following signing of an Anglo-Moghul treaty.

* 1824 – The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.

* August 13 – The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

It was formed in 1823 from Native American lands, and platted on March 16, 1825 ; it is thought to have been named after the Obion River.

In 1924, part of the area platted as the Temple Orange grove and called Temple Terraces, Inc. was developed into the present day neighborhood of Temple Crest, immediately adjacent to Temple Terrace and to its west, hugging the Hillsborough River.

Originally platted along the right-of-way for the Hennepin Canal, in 1837, the village site was called in land speculation papers " Hampton " ( not the town in Illinois, approximately 13 miles north-northeast, on the Mississippi River — see Hampton, Illinois for more ).

St. Joseph's College ( church ) This settlement, first platted on June 12, 1839, was originally named Newton and was established at the rapids of the Iroquois River.

Perrysville was platted and surveyed in 1825 by James Blair on a bluff on the west side of the Wabash River.

In 1856 the town of Dresden, about a mile east of the present town of Deep River, was platted.

) The town was platted on both sides of Stranger Creek, near its mouth at the Kansas River.

Aaron Willards platted a village named Rabbit River in 1862, with a second post office opening in July 1864.

By 1865, Robert B. Gregg owned the land and platted 127 lots on the south side of the Thornapple River.

It was first settled in 1836 and platted as " Grand River City " in 1841, but never incorporated.

As it was built through the area, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad platted the settlement at the juncture of the rail line with the south branch of the Boardman River.

The village was platted in 1831 at the St. Joseph River's confluence with the Fawn River, where three families had settled.

In the 1830's, a settlement was platted on the banks of the Huron River.

It was originally platted at the junction of the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road and Kettle River.

The town was platted after the society sold shares in the of Gasconade River valley land it had purchased.

Lexington, Missouri, located on the bluffs of the Missouri River, was platted in 1822, near William Jack's Ferry, which had been established three years earlier on the south bank of the river.

In 1902, he platted the Bigfork townsite at the mouth of the Swan River.

on the west side of Willamette Falls, across the Willamette River from Oregon City, from a local Native American chief, on which he platted a town he called " Robin's Nest " in early 1843.

The name Bend was derived from " Farewell Bend ", the designation used by early pioneers to refer to the location along the Deschutes River where the town was eventually platted, one of the few fordable points along the river.

There was a post office called Riverview on the east side of the Snake River and because the railroad did not want a station of the same name on the west side, the name Adrian was suggested by Reuben McCreary, who platted the townsite.

Burton D. Hurd, whose company promoted suburban garden farms with " Soil Richer Than the Valley of the River Nile " to prospective settlers, platted the townsite in 1911 and by 1914, the town had a gristmill, sawmill, cotton gin, hotel, and several general stores.

In 1892, it was revealed that the Great Northern Railroad would be building its main line through the valley and Mission was platted between the Right-of-way and the Wenatchee River in hopes of receiving a station stop on the new line.

When the location of present-day Altoona-approximately three miles east of the existing Eau Claire terminal-was found to have sufficient flat land and access to water ( via the Eau Claire River ), the railroad began construction of the new terminal and the community of " East Eau Claire " was platted in October.