The phrase "course of river" is not correct in standard English; it should be "course of the river." You can use it when discussing the path or flow of a river.
Example: "The course of the river has changed significantly due to erosion."
Alternatives: "path of the river" or "flow of the river."
They took different routes, followed the course of rivers below tree-top height.
Holding dear to this notion, it is easy to suppose that the Germans have not reclaimed land from water on a massive scale like the Dutch, pitched cities in swamp like Venice and St Petersburg or reversed the course of rivers like Stalin.
The Nar scheme has a cultural element too - Charles Rangeley Wilson, an author and conservationist, is researching old maps to find the original course of rivers so the meanders can be restored.
The older alluvium generally occupies a larger part of the area away from flood plains of the Ganga and Sai Rivers, whereas newer alluvium generally occupies the low-lying areas and is restricted to flood plains mainly in the narrow belt along the course of rivers.
Among the other important soil types are the alluvials that occur along the lower courses of rivers and the regosols (sandy soils) of the coastal tracts.
Such valleys often occur in the upper courses of rivers, where the stream has a strong, swift current that digs its valley relatively rapidly.
The early evidence of rice in mainland Southeast Asia focuses on the lower courses of rivers rather than their upper courses of the interior (Castillo and Fuller 2010).
Pinpointed accuracy of the winding courses of rivers and familiarity with scaled distance had been known since the Qin and Han Dynasty, respectively, as evidenced by their existing maps, while the use of a rectangular grid had been known in China since the Han as well.
The course of the river was determined by taking readings from the river-bed approximately every 100 metres along a ten kilometre stretch that extended beyond the borders of the study area.
There were no obvious point sources (e.g. pesticide mixing stands) identified along the course of the river (although a mixing stand was sited some 30 m from the river at L).
