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The river falls on its trip to Lake Winnipeg where it spreads into the vast deltaic wetland known as Netley Marsh.
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Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.
While the three gods are at the falls, Ótr ( in the form of an otter ) catches a salmon and eats it on a river bank, his eyes shut, when Loki hits and kills him with a stone.
All of the upper branches of the river Madeira find their way to the falls across the open, almost level Mojos and Beni plains, of which are yearly flooded to an average depth of about for a period of from three to four months.
The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.
The first locks on the river were built in 1825 at Louisville to circumnavigate the falls.
Kinshasa ( formerly Léopoldville ) and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, where the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons ( collectively known as the Livingstone Falls ), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
Railways now bypass the three major falls, and much of the trade of Central Africa passes along the river, including copper, palm oil ( as kernels ), sugar, coffee, and cotton.
There are several rapids as the river falls off Southern Africa's inland escarpment.
The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.
from the two main towns on either side of the falls: Puerto Iguazú in Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, as well as from Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, on the other side of the Paraná river from Foz do Iguaçu.
The water then passes through hydroelectric turbines that supply power to nearby areas of Canada and the United States before returning to the river well past the falls.
Englishman Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel, drowned in 1883 trying to swim the rapids down river from the falls.
Between 1859 and 1896 there was a wire-walking craze, and there were frequent feats over the river below the falls.
Ribaldi is especially kind to Georgie, and saves her life when she falls into a river that is known to be dangerous.
The river Tees rushes down between two rocks, and falls sixty feet perpendicular into a basin of water sixty feet deep ...
The river flows through a series of cascades ; and the last two falls of 55 meters and 61 meters are known as Pykara falls.
His army falls back to the river Spercheios where it is routed by Thessalians and Malians.
One can view the falls from the bank of the river, as well as on Goat Island and Luna Island, which are accessible by a pedestrian bridge that crosses the rapids of the Niagara river upstream from the falls.
The depth of the river at the base of the falls, estimated at, is actually higher than the fall itself.
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`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Soon as the Burnsides moved on, he'd lead Rex down by the river ; ;
Below, people line the steps, as though on bleachers, to watch the sky and river.
The grass and fields of rice are perfectly green, and herds of cattle are everywhere feeding on the banks of the river, and the natives are scattered about differently employed.
Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.
In fact, all persons were permitted to cross the Rhine into Kehl, there being no sentry posted on the west side of the river.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every day, the pots scoured with river sand after each meal.
Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.
What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of the river??
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.
Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.
The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.
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Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks.
It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.
It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.
Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.
The river soon changes its northwesterly flow for a due westerly direction, but after receiving the Saane or Sarine it turns north until it nears Aarberg.
Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).
The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.
There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).
Water in these places drills its way downward by dissolving the carbonate rock to form an extensive underground river system.
That river ( see below ) pierces the desert without modifying its character.
During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests — with the Ark — left the river after the people had passed over ( Josh.
The river was, for the first time in years, overflowing its banks, heralding the end of a long drought.
The river is also straddled by the New York Botanical Gardens, its neighbor, the Bronx Zoo, and a little further south, on the west shore, Bronx River Art Center.
* The River Bosna is the longest river in Bosnia and is fully contained within the country as it stretches from its source near Sarajevo to the river Sava in the north.
The military dangers in such an enterprise were numerous: Marlborough's lines of communication along the Rhine would be hopelessly exposed to French interference, for Louis ’ generals controlled the left bank of the river and its central reaches.
The Branco flows nearly south, and finds its way into the Negro through several channels and a chain of lagoons similar to those of the latter river.
By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).
Bamberg () is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main.
At the end of the rainy season in the fall, the river overflows its banks and creates a huge floodplain in the delta.
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