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The main waterways are the Albert Canal connecting Antwerp to Liège, the Ghent – Terneuzen Canal through the port of Ghent connecting Ghent with the Westerschelde, the Boudewijn Canal through the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge connecting Bruges with the North Sea, the Brussels-Charleroi Canal, Brussels-Scheldt Maritime Canal and Scheldt connecting Charleroi to Antwerp, the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal and Scheldt connecting the Borinage to Antwerp, the connection between the North Sea and Antwerp and the connection between Dunkerque and Liège via the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal, the Canal du Centre, the lower Sambre and the Meuse.
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Road travel is the main means of transport ; almost 70 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air.
The main inland waterways total about 18, 200 kilometers, 11, 000 kilometers of which are navigable by riverboats.
Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).
The choice of a small islet as a home may seem odd today, yet waterways were the main channels for both communication and travel until the 19th century in much of Ireland and especially Highland Scotland.
Since there are no inflows that link the lake to other large waterways and the main outflow, the Blue Nile, is obstructed by the Blue Nile Falls, the lake supports a highly distinctive fish fauna, which generally is related to species from the Nile Basin.
For example, a road map may not show railroads, smaller waterways or other prominent non-road objects, and even if it does, it may show them less clearly ( e. g. dashed or dotted lines / outlines ) than the main roads.
The main inland waterways are the Amu Darya River, which runs along the northern border, and the Garagum Canal, which runs from east to west from the Amu Darya near the Afghanistan border through Mary and Ashgabat to Turkmenbashi on the Caspian coast.
Once on the Carse, the English army would be caught in a kind of natural vise, as the main action on 24 June showed, with waterways to the north, east, and south.
Unlike Biscay and Gipuzkoa, but for Ayala and Aramaio, the waters of Álava pour into the Ebro and hence to the Mediterranean by means of two main waterways, i. e. the Zadorra ( main axis of Álava ) and Bayas Rivers.
There are of navigable waterways ( includes of main cargo routes ).
The two main villages were set up along two waterways, Hop Brook to the north and the Konkapot River to the south.
The main watercourse in the town of Sardinia is Cattaraugus Creek, which is also one of the main waterways in Erie County.
Mercer's main industry is seasonal tourism, which is based on the large amount of undeveloped land and secluded waterways.
Thus people used the waterways, especially the St. Lawrence River, as the main form of transportation, by canoes.
From this time up until the building of the first railways in the Mississippi Basin in the mid-19th century, the Mississippi-Missouri river system waterways were the main means of communication and transportation in the region.
Joure used to be an outskirt of a village called Westermeer, but soon grew bigger than the original town. The main reason was Joure's easy accessibility to waterways which allowed national and international trade to flourish.
This system of waterways was the main transportation venue, especially for goods from the pre-Hispanic period until the 20th century.
There are 50 inland waterways with different size ; the navigable mileage is 383km, and the main trunk and branch are 26.
Volga – Baltic Waterway, first constructed in the 19th century as the Mariinsk Canal System and then reconstructed in the 20th century, connects the river basins of the Volga and the Neva via the Sheksna, Lake Beloye, the Kovzha, and the Vytegra, and is one of the main waterways in European Russia.
The importance of waterways has considerably diminished since those days, but Lake Ilmen, the Volkhov River, and lower courses of main tributaries of lake Ilmen-the Lovat, the Msta, the Polist, and the Shelon, as well as Lake Seliger, remain navigable.
From the confluence of these two waterways, the main branch flows roughly due east past Two Dot, Harlowton, and Roundup, then turns north just past Melstone, and continues to the UL Bend on the Missouri River at the beginning of Fort Peck Reservoir.
Major waterways in the region include Port Jackson, the Lane Cove River, the Parramatta River, Middle Harbour and the many creek systems that branch out from these main aquatic lifelines.
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.
The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.
The main subgross anatomical features of the lungs of various mammals are presented.
Broad and Ross have lately contended that this fitness is one of the main facts of ethics, and I suspect they are right.
Accounting procedures which continue to charge a disproportionate overhead and warehouse expense to the main store make the branches seem more profitable than they are.
We are quite convinced that one of the main hopes for the future depends upon the informal contacts and exchanges of ideas between individuals.
Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.
Thus, the three main categories of antisubmarine warfare operations are defense of shipping, defense of naval forces, and area defense.
At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.
When all of the rinse water has passed from the reservoir to the tubs the main drains are lowered to permit complete draining of the tubs.
Discussed below are some of the main things to look for when you select a part-time farm.
And I suggest further that the main cause of the trouble we are in has been the failure of American policy-makers, ever since we assumed free world leadership in 1945, to deal with this problem realistically and seriously.
Rather, meat and potatoes, sugar, and dairy products are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein, oils, and fats.
Seeds are a main source of starch for industrial and food use in many parts of the world.
You will visit a few churches that are exceptional yet often by-passed, a magnificent square, the main shopping district, the Spanish Steps, and the lovely Pincian Gardens.
Admitting that main streets and the central business district should have priority, the Councilman said it is also essential that small shopping areas `` not be overlooked if our small merchants are to survive ''.
The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.
This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.
The main poison-producing glands, the paratoids, produce the neurotoxin bufotoxin and are located behind the ears of certain frogs and toads and behind the eyes of salamanders.
Some frogs and toads are toxic, the main poison glands being at the side of the neck and under the warts on the back.
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