The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

Elizabeth Aggasiz wrote, at the Strait: '… the Hassler pursued her course, past a seemingly endless panorama of mountains and forests rising into the pale regions of snow and ice, where lay glaciers in which every rift and crevasse, as well as the many cascades flowing down to join the waters beneath, could be counted as she steamed by them ....

However, Baltica ( Northern Europe and Russia ) and Laurentia ( eastern North America and Greenland ) remained in the tropical zone, while China and Australia lay in waters which were at least temperate.

* TS Eliot draws from this myth in The Dry Salvages: " And the ragged rock in the restless waters ,/ Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it ;/ On a halcyon day it is merely a monument ,/ In navigable weather it is always a seamark / To lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.

Though the site lay in ruins for most of the twentieth century, it continued to be a landmark to the Coameños, who would often go to bathe in its healing thermal waters.

There are limitations that allow foreign vessels the right of passage and for foreign states to lay pipelines and cables in the territorial waters, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf surface.

Air-breathing marine creatures must either come ashore to lay eggs, like turtles and some sea snakes, or else give birth to live young in surface waters, like whales and dolphins.

As a result of the unrepaired damage to the Flushing Tunnel, and the long stretch of economic recession, the waters of the canal lay stagnant and under-used for years.

Even so, members of the expedition and the crew were aware only a few miles of ice-blocked sea lay between them and the open waters.

Besides being the shortest seaway between the western and far eastern USSR, it was the only one that lay completely inside Soviet internal waters and did not impinge on waters of nearby opposing countries.

Cromwell lay at the confluence of the Clutha River and Kawarau River, which was noted for the difference between the colours of the waters of the two rivers and also for the historic bridge at the convergence of the two.

" The keeper of the gate to the Underworld that lay in the waters of Lerna was the Hydra.

Duncan did not follow them: the Dutch coast between Kamperduin and Egmond was only away, his ship lay in just 9 fathoms () of water and the weather was too fierce and his ships too battered to risk combat in shoal waters.

Proceeding through unfamiliar waters, he took advantage of adverse weather to lay a large quantity of explosive mines along sea lanes extensively used by the enemy and, in addition, delivered a smashing naval bombardment against Japanese shore installations on these islands.

Templeton is to all intents and purposes a propaganda organisation for religious outlooks ; it should honestly say so and equally honestly devote its money to prop up the antique superstitions it favours, and not pretend that questions of religion are of the same kind and on the same level as those of science – by which means it persistently seeks to muddy the waters and keep religion credible in lay eyes.

Early the next day, 8 April, the designated day for the mining to be carried out ) Britain informed the Norwegian authorities of their intention to lay the mines inside their territorial waters.

I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters.

As a result of this increase in flood waters the areas where salmon lay their eggs are being washed away ; this is because salmon lay their eggs just far enough beneath the bedrock to accommodate for the traditional annual flood, but due to urbanization the annual flood waters have increased and the layer of bedrock where salmon lay their eggs is washed away.

There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

As a result of this specialism, hellbenders are generally found in areas with large, irregularly shaped and intermittent rocks and swiftly moving water, and tend to avoid wider, slow moving waters with muddy banks and / or slab rock bottoms.

On this topic, he wrote, “ We must first stop the leak in the ship through which muddy waters from without threaten to sink us .”

Dante put Phlegyas over the Styx and made it the fifth circle of Hell, where the wrathful and sullen are punished by being drowned in the muddy waters for eternity, with the wrathful fighting each other.

Fur traders tried to use the Platte River, the main route of the eastern Oregon Trail, for transport but soon gave up in frustration as its many channels and islands combined with its muddy waters were too shallow, crooked and unpredictable to use for water transport.

To further muddy the waters, her written account of the experience — a frame tale — is being read many years later at a Christmas house party by someone who claims to have known her.

Large silt loads are also carried out to sea, some of the silt being deposited as a nutrient rich layer on the sea floor, contributing to the muddy waters that characterise Kakadu ’ s coastline.

After a statewide ban on large scale net fishing went into effect July 1, 1995 a government retraining program helped many local fishermen begin farming clams in the muddy waters.

" Perkiomen " is Lenape for " muddy waters " and " where the cranberries grow.

Local farmers and merchants watched the commotion in amusement and with interest as unsuccessful efforts were made to extricate the hippopotamus from the muddy waters of Cottonwood Creek.

He adopted the Cree language name for the lake: wīnipēk ( ᐐᓂᐯᐠ ), meaning " muddy waters ".

The rivers of the La Plata Basin carry an estimated of silt into the Río de la Plata each year, where the muddy waters are stirred up by winds and tides.

Winnipeg means ' big muddy waters ' and Winnipegosis means ' little muddy waters '.

Shoebills typically feeds in muddy waters and, being solitary birds, forage at a minimum distance of from one another.

Nargis actually worked in the muddy flood waters, which caused her skin allergies.

The Tully Monster ( Tullimonstrum gregarium ), so far apparently unique to Illinois, USA, was a soft-bodied invertebrate that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago.

The sandbar shark, true to its nickname, is commonly found over muddy or sandy bottoms in shallow coastal waters such as bays, estuaries, harbors, or the mouths of rivers, but it also swims in deeper waters ( 200 m or more ) as well as intertidal zones.

** Perkiomen Creek-" muddy waters " or " where the cranberries grow "-a creek in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

In shallow waters, common snappers may lie beneath a muddy bottom with only the head exposed, stretching their long necks to the surface for an occasional breath ( note that their nostrils are positioned on the very tip of the snout, effectively functioning as snorkels ).

Cambrian forms predominately lived in shallow seas, whereas later Paleozoic forms are more commonly found and in deeper waters with soft, muddy sea floors.

Self-propelled barges may be used as such when traveling downstream or upstream in placid waters ; they are operated as an unpowered barge, with the assistance of a tugboat, when traveling upstream in faster waters.

During the Dry, roughly from April to October, the Katherine Gorge waters are placid in most spots and ideal for swimming and canoeing.

The 16-meter tall, 350-ton monolithic colossus rises high from the placid waters of picturesque Husain Sagar Lake.

There are landscapes in the collections of the dukes of Bedford and Westminster, in which Cuyp has represented either the frozen Maes with fishermen packing herrings, or the moon reflecting its light on the river's placid waters.

Native Americans called it the Musketaquid or " grass-grown " river, because its sluggish waters abound in aquatic or semi-aquatic vegetation and its banks are fringed with wild grasses and sedges which stretch for miles along both sides of this placid stream.

This Buddhist temple includes several imposing buildings and is situated not far from the placid waters of Beira Lake on a plot of land that was originally a small hermitage on a piece of marshy land.

The placid waters of the lake are visited by many pilgrims and tourists.

The 300-million project involves first building a breakwater in the sea so that the waters at the marina are placid and the boats do not keep bobbing up and down with the incursion of waves.

During fair weather, the water is so clear that assorted schools of fish, various coral formations and large boulders can be seen beneath the placid waters.