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After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.
Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.
In ancient China, large canals for river transport were established as far back as the Warring States ( 481 – 221 BC ), the longest one of that period being the Hong Gou ( Canal of the Wild Geese ), which according to the ancient historian Sima Qian connected the old states of Song, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Cao, and Wei.
At flood, the river becomes an area flow source, far more than a narrow confined river.
The Soviet code name, Operation Anadyr, was also the name of a river flowing into the Bering Sea, the name of the capital of Chukotsky District, and a bomber base in the far eastern region.
Seven years later the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says: plundered the English as far as the river Tees, and he seized a multitude of people and many herds of cattle: and the Scots called this the raid of Albidosorum, that is, Nainndisi.
Millions of dollars so far have been used to dredge pollutants out of the river, and the recent cleaning up and restoration of the Detroit River is remarkable, although other problems are still at hand.
In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres and Lošinj ; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were also findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Međimurje and Slovenia.
" According to Strabo prior historians used Iberia to mean the country " this side of the Ἶβηρος ( Ibēros )" as far north as the Rhone river in France but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit.
It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.
:" Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais ( Don ), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.
The eastern boundary below the 31st parallel was unclear ; the U. S. claimed the land as far as the Perdido River, and Spain claimed the border of its Florida Colony remained the Mississippi river.
Britain, which reached from the Tweed, Westward, as far as the river Ex ; Wales inclosed by the rivers Severn, and Dee ; and Cornwall from the river Ex to the Land's-End ".
Lansing elevation ranges between above sea level on the far south side of Lansing along Northrup Street near the Cedar Street intersection, to to above sea level along the Grand River because of the two dams along the river.
Two years after, in 137 BC Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus led a successful campaign against the Lusitani, reaching as far north as the Minho river.
In this region the general level of the country begins to decrease in elevation, with only a few mountain spurs, which from time to time push as far as the river and form small-scale pongos.
A poor nation, Niger's transport system was little developed during the colonial period ( 1899 – 1960 ), relying upon animal transport, human transport, and limited river transport in the far south west and south east.
From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.
The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.

river and Stamford
The name " Norporiton " originates from an Indian word assigned to the river along Darien's border with Stamford.
The county border again leaves the river to the west of Stamford while below the town the river forms the border between Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.
Just before Stamford, the Great North Road, now labelled the A1, crosses the river, and a pumping station on the north bank at Stamford Meadows has pumped large quantities of water to the Rutland Water reservoir since its construction in 1975.
Stamford was the lowest point at which the river could be forded so the Roman Ermine Street crossed the Welland here.
Beyond Stamford, Hudd's Mill marks the point at which the Stamford Canal left the river.
The river was one of the earliest to be granted an act of Parliament for improvements, to allow navigation to Stamford.
The act was granted in the reign of Elizabeth I in 1571, and detailed how Stamford had prospered as a result of the river, but also stated that mills built between Stamford and Deeping had resulted in it no longer being navigable, as they had diverted the water.
The powers were revived in 1620, when Stamford Corporation was given permission by the Commission of Sewers to build a new artificial cut, which would run from the eastern edge of Stamford near Hudd's Mill, to Market Deeping, where it would rejoin the river.
Its importance as a port increased with the river improvements and the Stamford Canal, and although it did not have a customs house, by 1695 it had various officials who acted as customs officers for goods arriving at the quays and warehouses.
Smaller boats such as canoes, which can be carried around obstructions, can continue up to Stamford, but they must use the old course of the river through the Deepings, rather than the Maxey cut.
The river is now managed by the Environment Agency between Stamford and just below Fosdyke bridge, and a licence is required to use it.
The Anglo-Saxons later chose Stamford as their main town, being on a more important river than the Gwash.
The A166 east-west road crossing the river at Stamford Bridge is one of the main roads from York to the East Riding and the coast.
Singapore, a multi-racial, but predominantly Chinese, country has a relatively large Chinatown in a district to the south of the river originally designated for Chinese settlement by Sir Stamford Raffles.
The station was formerly the junction for a branch to Stamford, which diverged to the north just east of the river bridge at Wansford.
It is bounded to its west by the A6121 main road from Stamford to Bourne and on the other three sides by the River Gwash, although some development has spilled over the river to the north and out along the Essendine road.
Sir Stamford Raffles lost no time after January 1819, when he landed on Singapore River among the orang laut and the human skulls, the victims of river pirates, in bargaining with the Temenggong, the Johor chief who then ruled the place, having settled in 1811.
Stamford, Bourne and Sleaford had navigable river access until well into the 20th century and there are plans afoot to re-open the Sleaford Navigation.

river and was
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
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.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.
He had crossed the river which now, beyond the woods yonder, was sliding darkly under the mist.
The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.
What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of 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 ).
When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.
The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.
Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.
It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.

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