The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.

The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

The Earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rises, waves and various weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, accretion and reshaping of coasts as well as flooding and creation of continental shelves and drowned river valleys ( rias ).

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

The Madeira river rises more than 15 m ( 50 ft ) during the rainy season, and ocean vessels may ascend it to the Falls of San Antonio, near Porto Velho, Brazil, above its mouth ; but in the dry months, from June to November, it is only navigable for the same distance for craft drawing about 2 m ( from 5 to 6 feet ) of water.

It is broadly contiguous with the upper part of the drainage basin of the river Po, which rises from the slopes of Monviso in the west of the region and it's Italy ’ s largest river.

Most important of these is the Barada, a river that rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and disappears into the desert.

The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia.

The river rises at Vrutok, a few kilometers north of Gostivar in the Republic of Macedonia.

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 third thesis holds that the river rises on the slopes of Pic Aneto, at 2, 300 m a. s. l.

Krishna river rises at Mahabaleswar near the Jor village in the extreme north of Wai taluka, district Satara, Maharashtra in the west and meets the Bay of Bengal at Hamasaladeevi ( near Avanigadda ) in Andhra Pradesh, on the east coast.

The Krishna river rises in the Western Ghats, at an elevation of about 1337 m just north of Mahabaleshwar, about 64 km from the Arabian Sea.

It rises as the effluent of the Rhône Glacier in Valais, Switzerland, in the Saint-Gotthard massif, at an altitude of 1753 m. It is joined by the river Saône at Lyon.

The river rises in the Cascade Range at an elevation of at Keechelus Dam on Keechelus Lake near Snoqualmie Pass, near Easton.

The river rises in flood and carries the twins downstream, unharmed.

The Ter is a river in Catalonia ( northeastern of the Iberian Peninsula ) that rises in Ulldeter at an approximate altitude of 2400 meters, at the foot of a glacial cirque delimited by the nearby peaks of el Bastiments, el Gra de Fajol, or el Pic de la Dona.

Topographically, on the east bank of the river from the bridge crossing point, the land rises sharply up to 100 feet at High Catton.

The river rises from its source in central Java at the Lawu volcano, then flows north and eastward to its mouth in the Java Sea near the city of Surabaya.

The Pykara river rises at Mukurthi peak.

Parallel to the Valira river rises a mountain range, where stand the remains of two great fortresses, the Ciutadella and Ciutat Castle ( in Castellciutat ), both of historic importance in the town.

The river rises from its source in Lake Capimitchigama, in the Laurentian Mountains of central Quebec, and flows west to Lake Timiskaming.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

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

Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river??

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

Narrow valleys also lie at the foot of the lofty peaks along river corridors.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

The Robert F. Henry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 236. 2, the Millers Ferry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 133. 0, and the Claiborne Lock & Dam is located at river mile 72. 5.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

Scientists have discovered the longest underground river in the world, in Brazil, running for a length of 6, 000 km at a depth of nearly 4 km.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.

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other mountains: Montaigne d ' Argent, on the edge of Oiapoque river

* Eastern-most point – the confluence of the Gben river and the Férédougouba river on the border with Cote d ' Ivoire, Nzérékoré Region

They are found in coastal marine and estuarine habitats, and in freshwater river systems along the west coast of Africa from the Senegal River south to the Kwanza River in Angola, including areas in Gambia, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian Arab general who conquered the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus river ( now a part of Pakistan ) ( d. 715 )

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

Twenty-four years later, the river hosted the rowing events again at Bassin d ' Argenteuil, along the Seine north of Paris.

By the time the enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 metres and the complex had fifteen courtyards, the largest being the cour d ' honneur (" court of honour ") for military parades.

The Garonne river passes through the Val d ' Aran after rising on the Saburedo Cirque and receiving the water of the Joèu river ( from the slopes of nearby Pic Aneto and passing underground at the Forau de Aigualluts ).

Château d ' Amboise on the river Loire

Its touristic importance largely comes from the fact that it is the departure point for the descent of the gorge of the Ardèche river ( from Pont d ' Arc to Saint-Martin-d ' Ardeche ).

His eventual heir was forced to sell Chaumont to pay his debts to a maître des requêtes ordinaire to Louis XV, Monsieur Bertin, who demolished the north wing built by Charles II d ' Amboise and the Cardinal d ' Amboise, to open the house towards the river view in the modern fashion.

Located in the central Pyrenees, Pallars Sobirà stretches from south to north, starting at the gorge of Collegats to the village of Alós d ' Isil, following the course of the river Noguera Pallaresa.

The location of “ Champ d ’ Asile ,” while not positively proven, is designated by a State of Texas Historical Marker to be on the eastern side of the Trinity river bridge to the south on U. S. Highway 90.

Cook's ship was one of the first ships up the river, sounding the channel and guiding the fleet as it moved up, eventually landing Wolfe and his men on the Île d ' Orléans on 28 June.

The earliest known reference to the river was on a 1732 map by French cartographer d ' Anville who labeled it the River of the Padoucas.

The river was recorded by the 2nd century AD cosmographer Ptolemy of Alexandria ( d. c 168 ) as Δηουανα Devona, meaning ' goddess ', an indication the river was once a sacred one.

Between Basel and Breisach, the old river bed carries hardly any water ; almost all water is diverted through the Grand Canal d ' Alsace on the French side, to ensure safe shipping and hydro power generation around the clock.

The central hall called the Salle d ' Armes (" the Armory ") is immense, and one of the river channels flows through it.