Its river, the Shinano, is the largest in Japan, and it and its affluents bring down a prodigious volume of water.
After leaving Obanasawa the road passes along a valley watered by one of the affluents of the Mogami, and, after crossing it by a fine wooden bridge, ascends a pass from which the view is most magnificent.
The Hwai-ho and its numerous affluents (it is said to have 72 tributaries) rise in Ho-nan.
Its chief affluents are the Siang-kiang, which rises in the highlands in the north of Kwang-si and flows in a general N.
Perhaps the most remarkable of the affluents of the Yangtsze is the Han-kiang or Han river.
Zagros contains, besides rocky and snow-clad summits, a multitude of fertile valleys, watered by the great affluents of the Tigris or their tributaries, and capable of producing rich crops with very little cultivation.
Some distance below the hut the stream which we had followed is joined by a tributary coming from the east; the two branches of the fork collect a number of smaller affluents which have their sources near the summit of the chain.
So it flows past the grottoes of Vardzia and the Devil's City at Zeda Tmogvi, augmented by small affluents of which the largest is the Karri Chai.
From the edges of this highland country, which is geologically very ancient, the affluents of the Amazon to the north, and of the Plate to the south, flow, with immense and devious loops and windings.
When they reached the affluents of the Gy-Parana a third of the members of the party were so weak with fever that they could hardly crawl.
The headwaters of the northern affluents of the Paraguay and the southern affluents of the Amazon are sundered by a stretch of high land, which toward the east broadens out into the central plateau of Brazil.
The mouths of the main affluents of these highway rivers were as a rule well known.
He and his assistants explored, and mapped for the first time, the Juruena and the Gy-Parana, two important affluents of the Tapajos and the Madeira respectively.
The main stream flows almost along the equator, while the basin which contains its affluents extends many degrees north and south of the equator.
The American Museum was particularly anxious to obtain collections from the divide between the headwaters of the Paraguay and the Amazon, and from the southern affluents of the Amazon.
Our purpose was to ascend the Paraguay as nearly as possible to the head of navigation, thence cross to the sources of one of the affluents of the Amazon, and if possible descend it in canoes built on the spot.
The Putumayo is one of the most important affluents of the Amazon.
This is another of the large affluents of the Amazon, and seems to possess a navigable course, even for large ships, of over five hundred leagues.
Five or six affluents run into it, and there are stored and mixed up, and emerge by a narrow channel into the main stream.
Several mouths of smaller unnamed affluents showed themselves on the right of the river through the spaces between the islands.
In Europe or America these two affluents of the Meta would be considered good-sized rivers.
They are, too, among the youngest of the great migratory races of South America, and their original abode seems to have been in the upper basins of the Xingu and Tapajos, two of the great affluents of the Amazon.
Small flat boats and canoes may, through some of the affluents of the Meta, approach considerably nearer.
One of the chief affluents of the Meta from the north is the river Casanare.
Not once in our journeyings up the Meta and its affluents did we hear of any atrocities committed by these Indians, or even of any complaints against them, although we took particular pains to inform ourselves about the matter.
He afterwards made a similar expedition to the territories drained by the San Jorge and the Nechi, affluents of the Cauca, in search of the rich veins whence the Indians extracted their gold.
The affluents of the great river traversing this district are more numerous from the south than from the north, and carry the southern fishes far into the temperate zone.
Some of the Chinese authorities call it Khalagun ola and Hala chon, and D'Ohsson surmises that it is that part of the Khinggan chain from which flow the southern affluents of the Kalka, one of which is called Halgon in D'Anville's map.
He attacked the Swedish camp, which was situated on the Ijora, one of the southern affluents of the Neva, which has given its name to Ingria.
On the west its ramifications extend to the Mekong enclosing wide plains watered by the affluents of that river.
But this road is very wild and romantic, and the land is deeply excavated by the affluents of the Sutlej, and one might imagine that one had suddenly been transported to the canons of the Colorado.
Burrard rightly points out that this chain, which he calls "the Kailas Range," is not the watershed, for in some places it is broken through by affluents from the north.
As on the two preceding days we crossed several small affluents from the Trans-Himalaya.
During the following day's journey it flows through granitic moraines, drift sand, and morasses, and becomes a considerable stream, receiving numerous affluents from the south.
The Amazonian affluents are mostly navigable from the main river to the foot of these cascades.
The Parana and its affluents plunge from this plateau towards the south and west.
The Parana and its affluents plunge from this plateau to the southern plain in tremendous waterfalls.
Then they shed their moisture on its eastern slopes, which give birth to the multitudinous upper waters of the Orinoco, the Amazon and the western affluents of the River Plate.
But we must await further improvements in the navigation of the affluents of the mighty Amazon, before we can hope to receive any large instalment of these much-coveted treasures.
We were now in the fine clear stream of the Bahr Giraffe, which, having received numerous affluentsfrom the marsh regions, was united in one volume.
Furrowed by great rivers whose innumerable affluents supply means of irrigation and transport, her barren tracts are few and small.
Entering the Pearl River, a fine stream 500 miles in length, whose affluents spread like a fan over two provinces, we come to the viceregal capital, as Canton deserves to be called, though the viceroy actually resides in another city.
Stanley, and recognized that the rivers he had discovered were affluents of that stream.
It is, perhaps, to be regretted that time did not allow of an examination of the other affluents of the Usayali trending towards San Ramon and Tarmo.
Affluents and not true sources in some cases (Col.
Aud at the confluence of Gogar with Saru, may have some geographical interest and indicate movement of the two affluents such e.
Safed-koh to the Kabul-river between the Surkh-rud and Daka, while if affluents to the former stream be reckoned, more than nine issue from the range.
He reported the gradual formation of an anticlinal or ridge extending longitudinally through the great Balkh plain of Afghan Turkestan, which effectually shuts off the northern affluents of that basin from actual junction with the river.
At a point level in latitude with Mogaung, near the northern termination of the Burmese railway system, this boundary is defined by the eastern watershed of the Nmaikha, the eastern of the two great northern affluents of the Irrawaddy.
They felt under foot quite a network of liquid threads, which would feed the affluents of the little river.
This uniformity of level is shown also in the broad lake-like expanses of water formed near their mouths by the principal affluents which cross the valley to join the main river.
One cannot fully understand the River unless he has seen its cradle and the cradle of its affluents beneath the shadows of the great peaks of British Columbia.
Here are five distinct ridges, up and down, and through and around which, the Columbia and its affluents chase each other in a dizzy dance.
Hence we can expect no such vast extent of navigable water on them as the Mississippi and its affluents offer.
The rivers are numerous though small; most of them are affluents of the Elbe, which traverses a small portion of Mecklenburg.
The chief affluents are the Jouanne on the left, and on the right the Colmont, the Ernee and the Oudon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affluents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
