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  • First from the sea up along the Cocker to the source of that river, from that source straight to another spring which is called in Saxon Dunshop, thus down the riverlet to the Hodder, in the same direction to the Ribble and thus along that river through the middle of the channel back to the sea.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • That is what it must be; that no a single riverlet, arroyo, river, absolutely nothing remain undammed -- in addition to the use of drainage, the different types and systems of damming, the system for the injection of water in the phreatic mantle, and the use of subterranean water.

    INSTITUTE FOR HYDRAULIC RESOURCES 1963

  • Side about 2/3 of the way across and those of the Stard Side about the Same distance, the Countrey rises here about 200 feet above The water and is bordered with black rugid rocks, at the Commencement of this high Countrey on Lard Side a Small riverlet falls in which appears to passed under the high County in its whole cose Saw a mountain bearing S.W. Conocal form Covered with Snow. passed 4 Islands, at the upper point of the 3rd is a rapid, on this

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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