Sentence examples for by waterways from inspiring English sources

Early civilizations, which arose by waterways, depended on watercraft for transport.

"Our region is surrounded by waterways that have been crucial to making New York the city it is," Mr. van Buren said.

Ringed by mountains and traversed by waterways, it was physically beautiful, blessed with amenities from bookstores to brothels, with easy access to the Yellow Mountain countryside beyond.

Nihonbashi was not just the merchant heart of a city crisscrossed by waterways and, with a population of over 1m, more teeming even than Hogarth's London; it was also a pleasure district of teahouses, Kabuki theatres and courtesans.

The central group either have been, or soon will be, connected by waterways, and associated infrastructures are being individually developed in an attempt to create a variety of experiences.

We were just south of the equator, five hundred miles from Kinshasa, and three hundred miles from the nearest road used by cars — in a part of the continent connected by waterways or by trails running through the forest from village to village, good for pedestrians and the occasional old bicycle.

The Maastricht-Liège Canal was opened in 1850, enabling raw materials and steel to be transported from the Meuse and Sambre industrial areas by waterway throughout the Netherlands.

The Aman Canal Grande's ambiance is more reflective of a royal residence than a hotel as its location ensures complete privacy with the only entrance being by waterway.

Although Hamburg, the Weser ports, and Emden are able to transship heavy goods to the interior by waterway, they play a less important role in this area than Rotterdam (in the Netherlands) and other ports located at the mouth of the great Rhine waterway and closer to the Rhine-Ruhr area than the northern German ports are.

There were a number of abortive schemes to link the Bristol Channel to the English Channel by waterway in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

These schemes followed the approximate route eventually taken by the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, but the canal was instead built as part of a plan to link Bristol to Taunton by waterway.