In 1350 a European traveler, Ludolph van Suchem, wrote of the city as "begirt with gardens and orchards and watered in and out by waters, rivers, brooks, and fountains cunningly arranged to minister to men's luxury".
He was also connected with geographic features such as hills, glens, cliffs, caves, rivers, brooks and groves, which he created or at which he did something memorable.
His father, who'd run off not once, or twice, but three times, had heard tell of a man in Missouri who'd had no river or brook or stream water to plash through to cover his scent; instead, he wrapped some homespun from his shirt round his hand and rammed it down a dog's throat to choke it.
If you are using the newest version v.31.##, then make sure your embark location has some sort of water supply such as a river or brook, as farming requires irrigation.
On the drive home I find myself staring wistfully out the window at rivers and brooks I have never noticed before.
They certify that "in those regions there are mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, brooks, rills, trees, flowers, birds, beasts and every attribute of the most admired portions of this lower sphere".
Streambeds of rivers and brooks should form the dominant features in the urbanized areas.
For local industries along the route of the proposed canal, whose operations relied on water from local rivers and brooks which the canal might also use, its construction was a controversial idea.
There are three species: brook, river and sea lampreys.
"We have been encouraging any Vermonter who lives near a brook, river or lake should head to higher ground".
We go there to savor an unsullied world of "wildness and wet" and there is an added inducement for me: the river's wild brook trout and landlocked salmon.
