They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

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.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

The western Sanhaja were divided into several tribes-the Gazzula and the Lamta in the Draa valley and the foothills of the Anti-Atlas range, further south, encamped in the western Sahara desert, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith, and most southerly of all, the Gudala ( or Judala ), in littoral Mauritania down to the borderlands of the Senegal river.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

The city is situated in a high desert river valley approximately above sea level.

There, in the valley of the river Copiapó, Almagro took official possession of Chile and claimed it in the name of King Charles V.

It is situated at an altitude of 482 meters above sea level by the river Amper, with a boundary demarcated by lateral moraines formed during the last ice age and the Amper glacial valley.

The average annual deposit of arable soil through the course of the river valley amounted to some nine metres.

alt = A river flowing through a wide valley

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 ".

Surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

The broadest river valley, along the Río Ulúa near the Guatemalan border, is Honduras's most developed area.

While the river valley civilizations always had larger populations, the trading societies on the coast of the sea soon became the most prosperous, and rose to power.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

The aridization period that lasted for a millennium from the end of the 2nd millennium to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE caused depopulation of the arid belts and river valley oasis areas, their population moved north to the forest-steppe zone.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some up the valley.

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.

In final separation from them, in the railroad terminal across the river from New York, I would nearly cry.

New Orleans supplied the goods for the trade on the Mississippi, and west of that river, and on the Ohio and Wabash.

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.

An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

Early on New Year's morning, householders drink and then sprinkle ' magic water ' from ' a dead and living ford ' around the house ( a ' dead and living ford ' refers to a river ford that is routinely crossed by both the living and the dead ).

* Lud River, a river of New Zealand's South Island

* Mole River ( New South Wales ), a river in northern New South Wales, Australia

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 Diahot River is the longest river of New Caledonia, flowing for some 60 miles ( 100 kilometres ).

* Perth River, a river in New Zealand

The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were the most active of the New England persecutors of Quakers, and the persecuting spirit was shared by the Plymouth Colony and the colonies along the Connecticut river.

Part of the New Palace's area of was reclaimed from the Thames, which is the setting of its principal façade, the river front.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

In Ghostbusters II, the " river of slime " under New York city is found by the Ghostbusters boys to be flowing through an old pneumatic tube line – a reference to the Beach Pneumatic Transit tube.

The river was often described as the dividing line between the Old South and the New Southwest.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

Many of its older buildings have been renovated, and a business and commercial area is being developed into the New City Centre, expected to become the city's main administrative and business district on the north side of the Neris river.

* December 16 – The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while.

He knew that the Dutch had established deeds for the lands east of the river ( New Jersey ), but not for the lands to the west ( Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania ).

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

There is The Co-operative Food and a doctor's surgery on Franche Road ( A442 ) in Franche, a Morrisons on Green Street in the centre of the town, a Sainsburys and The Range on Carpet Trades Way near the river, and Tesco, Asda and Aldi are in the town centre on either side of New Road.