There true yachtsmen often find November winds steadier, the waters cooler, the fish hungrier, and rivers more pleasant -- less turbulence and mud, and fewer floating logs.

The Tombigbee and Alabama rivers unite near the southwest corner of the state, their waters discharging into Mobile Bay by the Mobile and Tensas rivers.

A stream anchor, which is usually heavier than a kedge anchor, can be used for kedging or warping in addition to temporary mooring and restraining stern movement in tidal conditions or in waters where vessel movement needs to be restricted, such as rivers and channels.

However, in practice they proved to be too large to manoeuvre well in the close waters of estuaries and rivers, the only places in which a ' naval ' battle could occur.

The circumpolar current merges the waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and carries up to 150 times the volume of water flowing in all of the world's rivers.

A crannog (; ; ) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes, rivers and estuarine waters of Scotland and Ireland.

Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin, hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei " Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Most of Italy's rivers drain either into the Adriatic Sea ( like Po, Piave, Adige, Brenta, Tagliamento, Reno ) or into the Thyrrhenian ( like Arno, Tiber and Volturno ), though the waters from some border municipalities ( Livigno in Lombardy, Innichen and Sexten in Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol ) drain into the Black Sea through the basin of the Drava, a tributary of the Danube, and the waters from the Lago di Lei in Lombardy drain into the North Sea through the basin of the Rhine.

They used the boats to hunt on inland lakes, rivers and coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic, Bering Sea and North Pacific oceans.

The waters flow into the Madeira from many large rivers, the principal of which, ( from east to west ), are the Guaporé or Itenez, the Baures and Blanco, the Itonama or San Miguel, the Mamoré, Beni, and Mayutata or Madre de Dios, all of which are reinforced by numerous secondary but powerful affluents.

In Punjab ( meaning the " land of five waters ") are the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej rivers.

deforestation ( some the result of illegal logging ); overgrazing of the slopes of the coast and sierra leading to soil erosion ; desertification ; air pollution in Lima ; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

In the south, the rivers flow directly into the Danube, and in the west, waters are collected by the Tisza on Hungarian territory.

Sirenia ( commonly referred to as sea cows ) is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.

The combination of these factors means that sirenians are restricted to warm shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and rivers with healthy ecosystems that support large amounts of seagrass and / or other vegetation.

Once they reach the plain, the rivers slow down and the waters meander across flood plains and deltas.

Many nearby local waters on rivers, bays, sounds, and coastlines can become great natural cruising grounds for this type of recreational sailing.

Because of the ships ' negligible draft, the Vikings could sail in shallow waters, allowing them to invade far inland along rivers.

* Ezekiel 32: 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a < U > whale </ U > in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Yggdrasil is first mentioned in the poem in stanza 29, where Odin says that, because the " bridge of the Æsir burns " and the " sacred waters boil ," Thor must wade through the rivers Körmt and Örmt and two rivers named Kerlaugar to go " sit as judge at the ash of Yggdrasill.

Once an inlet of the Gulf of Tonkin, it has been filled in by the enormous alluvial deposits of the rivers over a period of millennia, and it advances one hundred meters into the Gulf annually.

The main causes are the low rate of evaporation ( the bay is ice-covered for much of the year ), the large volume of terrestrial runoff entering the bay ( about 700 km³ annually ; the Hudson Bay watershed covers much of Canada, and many rivers and streams discharge into the bay ), and the limited connection with the Atlantic Ocean and its higher salinity.

: The United Nations Environment Programme has noted that BHP ’ s Ok Tedi mine site ’ s " uncontrolled discharge of 70 million tonnes of waste rock and mine tailings annually has spread more than down the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers, raising river beds and causing flooding, sediment deposition, forest damage, and a serious decline in the area's biodiversity.

That was the reason that motivated me to submit a bill for the Colombian Massif is regarded as cultural heritage, environment and ecology of the country, so that monies are included annually in the General Budget of the nation to advance plans integrated management of basins of major rivers are born there, in addition to resolving the land tenure conflict, the disadvantages on roads, education, health, the missing energy, to prevent livestock extend further progress, and definitely have a tool that allows us to solve in the first instance to a region of many needs and even the state should receive significant royalties for being the area that brings more water into the country.

Furthermore, high rainfall associated with aforementioned cyclones and monsoons, combined with Innisfail settlement on adjoining rivers causes flooding to be commonplace, occurring to varied degrees of severity annually.

This downstream section is annually stocked with Rainbow, Brown, and Brook Trout by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and is considered to be one of the best trout rivers in the state.

The tribe also owns and operates a fish hatchery that stocks local rivers and lakes with 15 million walleye annually.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

The coast is rugged and rocky, with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges.

In the Southwest, mountain ranges, rivers and, most obviously, the Grand Canyon can be significant barriers for human communities, likely reducing the frequency of contact with other groups.

The terrain is mostly mountainous and flat, with fast flowing rivers and few forests but with many trees.

* Asa River ( disambiguation ), multiple rivers with the name

For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads.

The river flows west to Selma, then southwest until, about from Mobile, it unites with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile and Tensaw rivers, which discharge into Mobile Bay.

Cunimund attempted to prevent the two armies joining up by moving against the Lombards and clashing with Alboin somewhere between the Tibiscus and Danube rivers.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

The rivers in the tropical zone abound with hippopotami and crocodiles, the former entirely confined to Africa.

The coast contains sufficient estuaries, inlets, rivers, islands, swamps and marshes to have been then inaccessible to those not familiar with the terrain, such as the Romans, who considered it unknown, inaccessible, with a small population and of little economic interest.

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

The valley also struggles with pollution from farm runoffs and residential sewers in its two major rivers, the Annapolis River and the Cornwallis River.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

The Bastarnae were also a target because they had recently subjugated the Triballi, whose territory lay on the southern bank of the Danube between the tributary rivers Utus ( Vit ) and Ciabrus ( Tsibritsa ), with their chief town at Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria ).

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

Taking water from existing rivers or springs was an option in some cases, sometimes supplemented by other methods to deal with seasonal variations in flow.

Canal building progressed steadily in Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries with three great rivers, the Elbe, Oder and Weser being linked by canals.