Glacial drainage from the ice field's northwestern rim courses down the Fraser and Columbia rivers into the Pacific Ocean; the Columbia flows a sinuous 1,240 miles (2,000 km) to its outlet between Oregon and Washington.
Of course, beating Northwestern (13-8, 3-7) isn't exactly like beating Duke.
Nearly 500 miles (800 km) long, the river rises in central Yunnan province in southwestern China and flows southeastward into northwestern Vietnam on a course parallel to the Red River.
The Season's weather can test the ardour of the keenest golf fanatic if, as can happen, the Open is held on one of those windswept links courses on the northwestern shoulder of our fair isle, where the Atlantic spray flies horizontal and even cormorants can be heard to grumble "gor blimey".
My home town, in northwestern Connecticut, had a small golf course in the eighteen-nineties, contemporary with Askernish.
There is, of course, a lot of art in the northwestern gardens featured in this book, and you know what they say about the beholder's eye.
The Daily Northwestern wrote: "Professor Trueblood of Michigan University has inaugurated a course in love making, his motive being to stimulate interest in his classes.
It flows through northwestern Wyoming, southern and eastern Montana, and northwestern North Dakota over a course of 692 miles (1,114 km).
