Steyning was once known as Portus Cuthmanni and to this point the tidal estuary of the Adur then reached.
The suggestion that they were originally beacon towers is not very convincing, though the Ouse at the time they were built was a wider and deeper stream, forming in fact an estuary haven.
In the Northern Command, the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, and Yorkshire, with the southern shore of the estuary of the Humber.
Liverpool was the scene of intense anxiety and excitement, when a report was spread that German cruisers were about the estuary of the Mersey.
Meanwhile the other division had visited the Hartlepools, which stand on Tees Bay, to the north of the wide estuary of the Tees.
Some fifteen miles north of Scarborough is the pleasant seaside resort of Whitby, built on both sides of the estuary of the little river Esk.
Footnote 182: She was afterwards interned at Newport News, on the northern shore of the estuary of the James River, Virginia.
The matters forming the deposit are torn from the mountain-side and whirled impetuously into the valley, more slowly over the plain, thence into the estuary, and from the estuary they are swept into the sea.
Savage, he affirms the natives call themselves) term the estuary of the Gaboon itself 'N'Pongo'.
Following a coast of numerous creeks and islets, with the large island of Mersea, the Colne estuary is reached.
It was, in fact, an island city in an estuary of the Persian Gulf, stretching up into the Arabian plateau.
Naze promontory, and then the Stour, bounding the county on the north, joins itsestuary to that of the Orwell near the sea.
In this and in similar cases the progress of the estuary is indicated upon what is now the continental shelf.
Breaking up therefore from Antwerp on 16th February, the Republicans quickly advanced towards the estuary known as the Hollandsdiep, while two other columns marched on Breda and Bergen-op-Zoom.
In this connection it is well to remember that the right of the Dutch to exclude foreigners from that estuary had been recognized by France in five treaties signed with Great Britain since the Peace of Utrecht.
The effusive thanks of the Dutch when the Court of Versailles opposed the demand of Joseph II, shows that they looked on the control of that estuary as vital to their interests.
The better course, then, for England will be to remain neutral, even if Holland be revolutionized, and the estuary of the Scheldt be thrown open to all nations.
On the same day the French deputies decreed freedom of navigation on the estuary of the River Scheldt within the Dutch territory, which that people had strictly controlled since the Treaty of Münster (1648).
You may talk to him, if you like; but you'll find you might as well argue with the tide in the estuary there.
Lord Verney, standing on the steps, was looking over Sedley's head, as he spoke, at the estuary and the shipping there.
Lord Verney crossed the estuaryin his yacht, consulting his watch from time to time, and reconnoitering the green and pier of Cardyllian through his telescope with considerable interest.
A few miles above the estuary the river separates into two branches, both of which were running strong at the time we passed them.
Previously to our reaching the Hutt our boats had all been wrecked; I had therefore no opportunity of examining whether the estuary of this river was navigable or not; from its size however I should be inclined to the affirmative.
I named the river and estuary now discovered the Hutt after William Hutt, Esquire, M.
They then wished us to go up the valley of the river with them, but we ascended a high hill to the north side, being desirous of getting a view and in hopes of seeing the large estuary pencilled on the chart by Captain Grey.
We followed the shores of the estuaryto the northward and eastward until we saw a point where it appeared to separate into two branches.
The Lower St. Lawrence shores maintain communication across the wide estuary by canoe ferries, established at various places.
Below the mouth of the Saguenay, the St. Lawrence stretches four hundred miles to the ocean, its broad estuaryconstantly growing wider.
The St. Lawrence is an enormous river, having much the largest estuary of any river on the globe, the tidal current flowing five hundred miles up the stream, and its mouth spreading ninety-six miles wide.
The broad estuary of the Tagus gives Lisbon an extensive and safe harbour.
The estuary of the Koksoak lies, according to an observation taken, in 58° 36' N.
At length we discovered three narrow inlets, the middlemost forming a bay, being the estuary of a river, which runs W.
The gathering of the fleet in the estuary of the Dive, and the assembling of the troops on the beach along its shores, formed a very grand and imposing spectacle.
This town lies several miles up an estuary that receives one or two small streams.
The estuary to the northward is called Southampton Water, the town of that name being seated on its margin.
Outside our gentleman untethered his horse from the iron ring to which he had attached the bridle; leading his horse he turned seaward and strode down the road that wound along the estuary towards Smithick.
After plunging along for more than two hours through dreary woods, we came upon the estuary of the Piteå River, where our course was marked out by young fir-trees, planted in the ice.
The extent of the survey, with delays caused by adverse weather, kept the Norfolk in the Tamar estuary for a full month.
On the afternoon of November 3rd the sloop entered the estuary of the river Tamar, on which, forty miles from the mouth, now stands the fine city of Launceston.
The Derwent, whose estuary is the port of Hobart, was entered on December 21.
