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Fox, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Fox, river, 176 mi (283 km) long, rising in S central Wis. and flowing SW to within 1.5 mi (2.4 km) of Portage, Wis., on the Wisconsin River, then NE through Lake Winnebago into Green…

Dvina, river, Russia, Belarus, and Latvia

(Encyclopedia) Dvina or Western Dvina, Ger. Düna, Latvian Daugava, Rus. Zapadnaya Dvina, river, c.635 mi (1,020 km) long, in Russia, Belarus, and Latvia. Rising in the Valdai Hills, it flows S and…

Yichang

(Encyclopedia) YichangYichangyē-chäng [key] or IchangYichangē-chäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 428,400), SW Hubei prov., China, a river port on the Chang. It is the western terminus for large…

Xingu

(Encyclopedia) XinguXinguzĭng-g&oomacr;ˈ, Port. shēng-g&oomacr;ˈ [key], river, 1,230 mi (1,979 km) long, rising in central Mato Grosso state, Brazil, and winding north across Pará state into…

Windsor Locks

(Encyclopedia) Windsor LocksWindsor Lockswĭnˈzər [key], town (1990 pop. 12,358), Hartford co., N Conn., on the Connecticut River; settled 1663, set off from Windsor and inc. 1854. Once a tobacco-…

Nelson, river, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Nelson, river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, issuing from the northeast end of Lake Winnipeg, central Man., Canada, and flowing NE to Hudson Bay at Port Nelson. With the Bow–South…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 12, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 11, 1806April 13, 1806April 12, 1806 Saturday April 12th 1806. It rained the greater part of last night and still continued to rain this…

Down the Columbia to Tidewater

Chapter 15 Chapter 17 Down the Columbia to Tidewater The voyagers were now drifting down the Columbia River, and they found the way impeded by many rapids, some of them very…