Depending on the stratum the canal passes through, it may be necessary to line the cut with some form of watertight material such as clay or concrete.

A ship lock long and wide next to the station passes some traffic through the canal, but above the dam traffic is mainly barges.

He not only verified the observation of Etienne on the valves of the hepatic veins, but he described the vena azygos, and discovered the canal which passes in the fetus between the umbilical vein and the vena cava, since named ductus venosus.

* He not only verified Estienne's findings on the valves of the hepatic veins, but he described the Azygos, and discovered the canal which passes into the fetus between the umbilical vein and vena cava.

The embryo passes from the body of the female into the alimentary canal of the host and leaves this with the feces.

At Cowley, the canal begins to climb the valley of the River Colne following a north-westerly course to Uxbridge After Denham and Harefield, it passes to the south of Rickmansworth.

After Kings Langley and Apsley-the site of more former paper mills-the canal passes Hemel Hempstead and Boxmoor Common.

Once clear of the tunnel, the canal passes Blisworth village and reaches Gayton Junction where the Northampton Arm branches off to the east.

A few miles further on the canal passes through the 2040-yard ( 1865-m ) Braunston Tunnel, which pierces a low range of hills that are part of the Northamptonshire uplands.

Three miles ( 5 km ) from Hatton Top Lock the canal passes through Shrewley Tunnel, with its separate horse tunnel, and then passes Rowington village to Kingswood Junction where a short spur connects with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

The stretch of the canal which passes through the centre of Leicester known as the ' Mile Straight ' is home to Leicester Rowing Club, a rowing and sculling club formed in 1882.

After leaving Hangzhou the canal passes around the eastern border of Lake Tai, through the major cities of Jiaxing, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou before reaching Zhenjiang.

The canal, now in Hebei province, passes through the cities of Dezhou and Cangzhou.

Although visitors might see the canal as a deep waterway in these city centres, its depth is maintained by weirs and the canal is in fact all but dry where it passes through the surrounding countryside.

The canal passes through the town of Chesapeake City, where a high-level bridge facilitates the passage of large ships beneath Maryland State Route 213.

* Birth canal is the term used for the vagina during birth, as it is the route through which the infant passes during a vaginal birth.

The fetal head passes out of the birth canal.

The Ghent-Terneuzen Canal passes through Sas van Gent, and at that point there was a lock in the canal.

The Erie Canal ( also known as the Barge Canal ) passes through the south end of the town, running along River Road, with Lock 20 Canal Park just east of the Route 291 bridge lying on the canal.

Interstate 75 passes through the old canal way in Lockland.

The highest section of the canal passes close to Kilsyth and it is fed there by an aqueduct which gathers water from ( the purpose built ) Birkenburn Reservoir in the Kilsyth Hills, stored in another purpose-built reservoir called Townhead near Banton, from where it feeds the canal via a feeder from the Shawend Burn near Craigmarloch.

The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.

The general slope of the plains through which the canal runs is south-west, but those of the Rio Negro slope south-east.

The canal cuts through the Isthmus of Corinth | Isthmus.

The builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level ; no locks are employed.

He planned to dig a canal through the Isthmus in Greece and sent a chief centurion to survey the work.

By allowing it to run to seed and through deliberate cultivation by the town of Dachau the canal is only still recognizable as such between Frühlingstrasse and the Pollnbach.

Eindhoven was connected to the major Zuid-Willemsvaart canal through the Eindhovens Kanaal branch in 1843 and was connected by rail to Tilburg ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Venlo and Belgium between 1866 and 1870.

Below its tendon, the tendons of the long flexors pass through the tarsal canal.

Von Platen himself extolled the modernising virtues of the canal in 1806, claiming that mining, agriculture and other industries would benefit from " a navigation way through the country.

Ships classified as Vänermax are of the maximum dimensions that will fit through the canal.

When a canal was built through the land his body was placed in storage in a warehouse for several years before being secretly deposited in the crypt of Christ Church ( demolished 1899 ), Birmingham.

He also wanted to convert Ostia to a major port, and cut a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth.

While most large, modern cruise ships cannot pass through this canal due to clearance limits under bridges, MS Norwegian Dream has special funnels and masts that can be lowered for passage.

At first he opposed Clinton's plan for the Erie Canal, but later supported it when the Bucktails were able to gain a majority in the Erie Canal Commission, and supported a bill that raised money for the canal through state bonds.

Neon played a role in the basic understanding of the nature of atoms in 1913, when J. J. Thomson, as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays, channeled streams of neon ions through a magnetic and an electric field and measured their deflection by placing a photographic plate in their path.

Hydraulic engineer Pieter Caland was commissioned to design a canal cutting through the " Hook of Holland ” and to extend the Mouth of Rhine to the sea.

Such a canal would follow rivers up to Lake Nicaragua and then be constructed to cut through the isthmus of Rivas to reach the Pacific.

The idea of building a canal through Central America is a very old one.

A survey from the 1830s stated that the canal would be long and would generally follow the San Juan River from the Atlantic to Lake Nicaragua, then go through a series of locks and tunnels from the lake to the Pacific.

It granted his Accessory Transit Company the exclusive right to build a canal within 12 years and gave the same company sole administration of a temporary trade route in which the overland crossing through the Rivas isthmus was done by train and stagecoach.

In the late 19th century, the United States government negotiated with President José Santos Zelaya to lease the land to build a canal through Nicaragua.

The US signed the Sánchez-Merry Treaty with Nicaragua in case the negotiations for a canal through Colombia fell through, although the treaty was later rejected by John Hay.

They favored construction of a canal through the isthmus of Panama.