The second, or largest, is called in Dutch records Matsepe, "Great river.
Lower Bengal exhibits the two typical stages in the life of a great river.
Getting tired of this country, they set out towards the East in search of a better place, and probably followed the lake shore around until they finally came to a great river--that is, the Detroit.
The city of Cambalu is seated on a great river in the province of Kathay, or Northern China, and its name signifies the city of the prince, having been the royal residence in former times.
This city stands upon a great river, some days sail from the sea, so that the water there is fresh.
Up to 1848 the salubrity of Para was quite remarkable for a city lying in the delta of a great river, in the middle of the tropics and half surrounded by swamps.
JUBA, a great river rising in the Abyssinian mountains and flowing S.
OXUS or AMU-DARIA, a great river of Central Asia, rises in the Pamirs, and flows W.
Great River), the largest river in Norway; has its source in Lake Aursund, and, after a southward course of 350 m.
NIGER, a great river of Western Africa, whose head-waters rise amid the Kong Mountains behind Sierra Leone; flowing NE.
Thus six out of seven tribes peopling its banks united in terming it the "Great River".
Here they selected the territory bordering on the river Parker, or Great River as it was called at that time.
They climbed the archway of color that leaped out over the Great River until at last they disappeared in the dazzling disk of the sun.
Unlike nearly all the men of the tribes that lived along the Great River, he had a thick black mustache that drooped over the corners of his mouth.
She wanted to flow together with White Bear as the Rock River flowed into the Great River.
But the whole question of what "great river" Radisson meant to describe is so involved in doubt, that very likely we shall never know the truth about it.
It is traversed by a great river--the Waters of Life--which runs through the heart of China for a distance of six months' journey.
After sailing for another nine days he came to a great river; they turned up into the river, but they durst not sail beyond it on account of hostility, for the land was all inhabited on the other side.
We went back to the ships, and next day made our way from Cape Verde and saw the broad mouth of a great river, which we entered and guessed to be the Gambia.
Beyond these mountain peaks, supporting the world, rolled a great river, an ocean stream, and the sun was as a ball of fire placed on a boat and carried round the ramparts of the world by the all-encircling water.
The Huerfano is a great river, which heads in the Sangre de Cristo range, among the mountains of the Sierra Blanca range, and by various other affluents, as Muddy cr.
The only serious criticism to be passed on this part of Pike's map is the way he runs a great river in the country of his Ietans and Mescaleros, between his Sierra Obscura and his Montagnes de Salines, i.
It was indeed a great river, for the Amazon at the place where the Napo flows into it is a mile in width.
Orellana and the soldiers with him were carried by the current swiftly down the Napo, and in three days they came into the great river.
We went to-day to the top of Trinity Church tower; a beautiful panorama, with the bay of New York to the south, the city stretching away northward, and a great river on either side.
There are wide districts of that great area on which human foot has never been set, and as late as 1895 we were advised of the discovery of a great river, with its head-waters near those of the Ottawa, but previously unsuspected.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great river" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
