the waterways of Venice?

"I've been through the Athabasca waterways a dozen times, and know the trail as well as I know Broadway.

That Commission might very conveniently have a voice in the administration of the great waterways of Africa (which often run through the possessions of several Powers) and in the regulation of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of peace.

In the same way I understand the Labour proposal as meaning that we should delegate to an African Commission the middle African Customs, the regulation of inter-State trade, inter-State railways and waterways, quarantine and health generally, and the establishment of a Supreme Court for middle African affairs.

The baidarka, the most valuable possession of the native in a country so cut up by waterways that little traveling is done by land, deserves a word.

The day had a melancholy cast in the narrow waterways of Murano, where clouds of smoke, dense and constant, rose from hundreds of glass-workers' chimneys, dimming the reflections in the lagoon and obscuring that wonderful coloring of sky which is nowhere so radiant as at Venice.

The area of ore already located covers 12,500 square meters.[m] CHAPTER XIV HIGHWAYS, RAILWAYS, AND WATERWAYS Since the sixteenth century Norway has had an excellent public posting system which enables the traveler to go to the most remote parts of the country at moderate and fixed rates.

And it be known, likewise, that always do they return when the sun is in the land and the waterways are free.

The sanding up of the river has, on the contrary, been increased by a quantity of fish reels, the erection of which has been favored by the Colonial Waterways Board because it reaped a small tax from them.

At length retribution overtook him, for two soldiers, devoted to Alessandro's memory, hunted him down in the waterways of Venice, to which he had returned.

To the northwardand they had been travelling northwas the Skeena River; on the west and south were the Babine range and waterways; eastward, over the Divide, was the Driftwood, and still farther eastward the Ominica range and the tributaries of the Finley.

It was not alone his hunger for fish or fear of his enemies that was bringing Thor into the lower country of the Babine waterways.

Northward from Victoria, the rugged shores that line those inland waterways began to appear blurred.

Its far reaching waterways, furthermore, made freighting easy and permitted the planters to devote themselves the more fully to their staple.

Srinagar has been called the "Venice of the East," and, inasmuch as waterways form the main thoroughfares in both, there is a certain resemblance.

And take the advice of your man of the law in parting: in your voyages over the inland waterways of life, look not upon the flush when it is rednot even the straight one; for had I not done that on a damned steamboat coming up from St. Louis I should not have been thus in my old age forsaken.

Yet a good system of natural waterways may be greater wealth to one nation than costly additional railroads are to another.

Good natural harbors on the waterways leading out to the oceans are a most important kind of national wealth, as are the navigable great lakes within the boundaries or on the borders of a country.

The Great Lakes with a straight shore line of 2760 miles are the most important inland waterways in the world.

On the waterways some 27,000 American vessels are in use, with a capacity of 8,000,000 gross tons.

Even in respect to cheapness, the unique virtue of waterways in favored localities, the railroad made rapid gains.

Arrived at a rocky knoll which looked up both waterways, the three men halted to take a last glance at the Great Cañon, the scene of a pilgrimage that had been a poem, though a terrible one.

One-half of the area is under cultivation; the vine flourishes, hops and tobacco are grown, and market-gardening prospers near the large cities; but manufacturing is the chief industry, and the transit of goods is greatly facilitated by the many waterways and network of railways.

My friends looked and shivered; I, staring from my window on to the entrance into the waterways of the city, felt that any magic might come out of that strange desolation and silence.

So we punctuated the lovely journey among the Italian hills, and between their admirable waterways, by hopping off the train for coffee every time they said "Cinque minuti."