[...] Thence the Britons retired to the river Thames at a point near where it empties into the ocean and at flood-tide forms a lake.

As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.

Before reaching Jordanian territory the river forms the Sea of Galilee, the surface of which is 212 meters below sea level.

From the dark chasm a fountain violently erupts, then forms the meandering river Alph, which runs to the sea described in the first stanza.

The former river forms a gorge running through the middle of the city south of the old city centre, generally following the course of the present Rue Centrale, with several bridges crossing the depression to connect the adjacent neighbourhoods.

The Murray River forms part of the long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland.

The river then forms part of the Belgian-Dutch border, except that at Maastricht the border lies further to the west.

In the Netherlands it continues northwards through Venlo closely along the border to Germany, then turns towards the west, where it runs parallel to the Waal river and forms part of the extensive Rhine – Meuse – Scheldt delta, together with the Scheldt river in its south and the Rhine river in the north.

At one point the river crosses a moraine ridge and forms the Ivanov rapids.

An unusual feature of the river is the Inner Niger Delta, which forms where its gradient suddenly decreases.

The largest river in the state is the Rhine, which forms the border with Baden-Württemberg and Hesse in the southeast before flowing through the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The lower river south of Orange, Texas, to Sabine Lake forms part of the Intracoastal Waterway, carrying barge traffic.

The Bukit Barisan mountains, which contain several active volcanoes, forms the backbone of the island, while the northeast sides are outlying lowlands with swamps, mangrove and complex river systems.

Landlocked Afghanistan has no seaports but the Amu Darya river, which forms part of the nation's border with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, does have barge traffic.

The bridge, nearly 700 metres long and 11 metres across, straddles the Panj river which forms a natural border between the two countries, between the ports of Nizhny Panj on the Tajik side and Shir Khan Bandar in Afghanistan.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

It forms the core of the Grand Avignon metropolitan area ( communauté d ' agglomération ), which comprises twelve communes on both sides of the river:

Coastlines can shift in the direction of the sea when the sea level drops, when the surface rises due to tectonic forces in the Earth's crust or when a river forms a large delta.

The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and forms part of the international boundary between Ontario and New York in the United States.

The Godavari ( Telugu: గ ో ద ా వర ి)( Marathi: ग ो द ा वर ी) is a river that runs from western to southern ends of India and forms one of the largest river basins in India.

The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County.

In a small grove against the river they halted, turning deep into the protection of the trees.

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

The Aal is a small river located only within the town's territory.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

A small number of pockets of land on the right-hand side of the river Dragonja in Istria have remained under Croatian jurisdiction after the river was re-routed after the Second World War.

It is operated by river tugs pushing several barges lashed together, and for the hundreds of passengers and traders these function like small floating towns.

Rather than mooring at riverside communities along the route, traders come out by canoe and small boat alongside the river barges and transfer goods on the move.

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers ; 3, 300 km navigable by native craft

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

It is primarily a low-level bridge which possesses an elevated span with a vertical clearance of in the middle of the river to permit small craft to pass.

Shipbuilding on Clydeside ( the river Clyde through Glasgow and other points ) began when the first small yards were opened in 1712 at the Scott family's shipyard at Greenock.

Their first armed assault fell on the small town of Ústí, on the river Lužnice, south of Prague ( today's Sezimovo Ústí ).

Afraid to return to Delhi and be seen as a failure, he stayed for a time in southern India under the protection of Jamal-ud-Din, ruler of the small but powerful Nawayath sultanate on the banks of the Sharavathi river next to the Arabian Sea.

There are a number of small private reserves along the river, which arrange wildlife viewing

It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon from the east at Dawson.

Superman captured the two small pieces of kryptonite, one from a fake swami ( pretending to " hex " Superman with it ) and another he purchased from a jewelry store, and threw them into Metropolis ' river.

Inland water transport is limited to small ferry boats at river crossings, and the Government of Lesotho operates boats at major crossings.

Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).