Sentence examples for river passage from inspiring English sources

The Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt speculated that the Darién isthmus harbored a river passage that need only be expanded to be navigable.

analyze and report the massacre of innocent Miskito indigenous people on Friday, May 11th at 1 30 am, by the U.S. armed forces in conjunction with members of the armed forces of Honduras, in the river passage between the Barra Patuca community and Ahuas.

They range from the minuscule (how to clear the debris under the abandoned railroad trestle in Kent that blocks river passage) to the daunting (how to help Cleveland and Akron find the right plans and financing to solve serious sewage overflows during rainstorms that feed the river's violation of federal pollution standards).

At The Dalles, where river passage was available to Portland, the Meeker party found a motley crowd of emigrants.

This is 370 m of what is described in the guide book as "magnificent" river passage, 13 m high and 2 m wide, which finishes at a cascade falling from a 30 m long lake.

Right now, the canal-and-river passage across Illinois from the lake to the Mississippi is a highway for the dispersal of organisms.

Completed in 1828, the canal used both open-river passages and artificial channels segmented by 48 locks to allow horse-drawn boats to go north and south.

Several passages relating facts and lore about the river distilled passages from the book.

The drought has created a low-water choke point south of St Louis, near the town of Thebes, where pinnacles of rock extend upwards from the river bottom making passage treacherous.

The raging cataracts that characterise the river's early passage have made it a rafting hotspot, one of the few places in the world where amateurs can take on "grade five" whitewater.

Without any assistance, the task force got within 8 mile of the Confederate capital but could not proceed further because of sunken vessels and debris placed in the river blocking further passage.