Their story does not therefore touch directly upon the St. Lawrence, except in so far as that river was their road to and from the Iroquois towns and the country of the Hurons.
The Indians called them adhothuys, and told him that they were found only in such places as this, where the waters of sea and river mingled.
Champlain, with his little party of French and a horde of naked savages, reached the mouth of the Richelieu, or the River of the Iroquois as it was then called, about the end of June 1609.
July 1st they passed the mouth of what the Indians called the River of the Mountain, afterward known as the Liard, where Fort Simpson was built many years later.
Finding safe quarters for two of his vessels in the St. Charles River he continued his voyage in the third, in spite of the opposition of Donnacona and his people, who with true native jealousy would have prevented his further progress.
One further glimpse from Henry's Journal will serve to give some idea of life on the banks of the Red River at the beginning of the last century.
At the foot of this horrible Precipice, we meet with the River Niagara, which is not above half a quarter of a League broad, but is wonderfully deep in some places.
Returning to the Red River of the North, and spanning the interval in time to the close of the eighteenth century, we find another party of white men making their way up its muddy waters.
Ruxton Farlow accepted this as his basis of fact, and followed the river down its turbulent course towards that sea of disaster which he already saw looming ahead.
He is lying off the mouth of the river to pilot you in to a--safe--mooring.
The facts which concerned him at the moment were many, and he found in them all, when arranged in due order, one stream like some rushing river which raced on its tempestuous way to the wide sea of disaster beyond.
Yes, I did, an' of course you can have me sent up the river for it; but what good will that do you?
Most of them were later transplanted in nursery rows at my farm seven miles east of River Falls, Wisconsin.
He operates several hundred acres of farm land in the Missouri River bottoms and his house stands in a grove of native pecans.
Hickories are, of course, a native of this section as is pecan, which grows wild on the Mississippi River bottoms about as far north as the mouth of the Maquoketa River.
After getting through with the Persian walnuts at Royal's, we will proceed down the Illinois River about 30 miles to our place at Eldred.
He kept in contact with these riverrats and they would always bring anything to him they thought was of interest.
I came over across theriver and dropped into Battle Creek.
They are of various shapes, made according to the nature of the part of the river on which they ply.
I crossed the river Taping from Manyüen, being shown the road by a Burmese member of the Buddhistic yellow cloth, who was most pressing that I should stay with him for a few days.
From Kweifu to Wan Hsien there was the same kind of scenery--the clear river winding among sand-flats and gravel-banks, with occasional stiff rapids.
Modern steamers, with every modern convenience and luxury, probably as comfortable as any river steamers in the world, ply regularly in their two services between Shanghai and this port, at the foot of the Gorges.
Slipping, there would be no hope--death and the river alone lay down that treacherous mountain-side.
For days you meet no sign of human habitation, and woe betide you if the river rises!
This species was found nesting along the Missouri River near Atchison by early explorers.
Abundant transient and winter resident in east; in High Plains of west, largely restricted to river bottoms in winter.
The river was sparkling in the sunshine, and the trout were leaping out of it high into the air to catch the flies for food.
One day we went for a picnic to a lovely valley where a beautiful waterfall leaped and dimpled in the sunlight, and then fell down, down, down hundreds of feet into the river below.
Take a watering-pot without the rose, and run the water (river or rain water is best) gently between the rows, taking care not to make holes in the ground.
Where there are not rain or river water, it should stand at least one day in butts or cisterns, to take the chilly air from it, and become softened by the surrounding atmosphere.
He had heard that the death-roll of the Thames was one of every day for the year, and he leaned over the granite wall and wondered if the old river had claimed its toll for the day that was now almost done.
Being shallow and very swift, the riverhead escaped the grip of the frost, and slipped through its fingers.
The old river that flowed past the old city that night had flowed there centuries ago, and generations of men had lived and died in joy and sorrow, and still the same waters washed the same shore.
What, after all, was the old god of the river to the Juggernaut of the city?
Heavy rains had preceded the frost, and the river that ran down the middle of the valley had overflowed the meadows to the width of a wide carriage-way.
They passed over the road that crosses the river at the head of Newlands, and turned down into the path that follows the bed of the valley.
A river flows down the bed of the valley, springing in the south among the heights of Dale Head, and emptying into Bassenthwaite on the north.
Hugh Ritson sat in his room at the back of the Ghyll, with its window looking out on the fell-side and on the river under the leafless trees beneath.
Not a star shone overhead, and the river that flowed in the bed below was dark.
The bride and bridegroom were to return in this conveyance, which was to be drawn down the frozen river by a score of young dalesmen shod in steel.
The mist that rose from the river spread itself over the cold, open wastes of marshy ground that lay to the right and to the left.
But all went well until the company came within fifty paces of the church door, and there a river crossed the road.
Your worship, I picked this person out of the river at ha'past one o'clock this morning," said a constable.
The person picked out of the river may have been another woman.
The flames burst out again and illumined the whole sky; the dark mass of the fells could be seen far overhead, and the waters of the river in the bed of the valley glowed like amber.
Hylas, seeking for water with a pitcher, so enraptured the nymphs of the river with his beauty that they drew him in.
The poem called "Recollection," in The Watchman, was reborn as "Sonnet to theRiver Otter.
None the less, as a boy, he tells us, he had read Bruce and applied his Abyssinian methods to the New River (see the Elia essay on Newspapers).
My bed faces the river so as by perking up upon my haunches, and supporting my carcase with my elbows, without much wrying my neck, I can see the white sails glide by the bottom of the King's Bench walks as I lie in my bed.
Peter Bell, in the poem, sounds the river with his staff, and draws forth the dead body of the ass's master.
The new volume was The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets, .
The second of the "2 following poems" was Coleridge's "Sonnet to the River Otter.
The poem "Dear native brook" was the sonnet "To the River Otter.
The Sperchius is a river in Thessaly, which has its source in the Pindus range and its mouth in the Maliac gulf.
Because, like the wool-merchants, who moisten their wares, he has thrown a river into his verse and has made it quite wet, whereas yours was winged and flew away.
These emotions, often suggested by some hint of beauty, as of the sun glinting on the river on a bright blue day, had a sudden way of possessing her, and the longing they induced was pain.
One morning in the late spring Janet crossed the Warren Street bridge, the upper of the two spider-like structures to be seen from her office window, spanning the riverbeside the great Hampton dam.
Sometimes Ditmar called on them at their homes, which stood overlooking the waters of the Charles River Basin.
All day it had rained, but now, as night fell and Janet went homeward, the white mist from the river was creeping stealthily over the city, disguising the familiar and sordid landmarks.
Some light vessels and boats, with about six hundred troops, were at once detached and sent up the riverto capture her.
Pausing now cautiously to reconnoitre, he presently discovered four store-ships which had anchored in the river before discharging their cargo.
Farther up the river was a creek crossed by a bridge; but the bridge was not strong enough to allow the guns to be carried over, and the Americans were thus prevented from taking up their position in rear of the creek.
Although the war on land had at this time pretty nearly come to an end, the Delaware River and the bay below were still infested by Tory privateers and stray cruisers from the British fleets on the lookout for prizes.
His force was only one third of that of the enemy, who were strongly intrenched in a fortified camp in the valley of the river Mesa.
Sometime after this mishap the Americans reached a river which they forded, the enemy retreating as the sailors charged gallantly up the opposite bank.
He forded the river under the enemy's guns without firing a shot, dragged his guns through the water, and formed his men in squares on the opposite bank.
Patrick Henry, of Virginia, to exchange the two lieutenants; and so Barney was released from his parole in time to bear his part in the actions in the Delaware River during the weeks that followed Sir William Howe's occupation of the city.
Major Maitland, with a force of gunboats and barges, accompanied by a detachment of infantry and artillery, made a raid up the river and sought out all the vessels which had been lying snugly concealed there during the winter.
Well, maybe we can make some now," suggested Ted, and a little later the two boys were seated in the shade under the willow trees that grew on the bank of a small river which flowed into Clover Lake, not far from Cherry Farm.
At the spot where we had first come upon it, the riverwas edged with a little strip of coarse gravel, but, as we progressed, this became narrower and narrower, and the river seemed to be running with even greater velocity than before.
I was of the opinion that our best course would be to follow the river in the hope of its emerging into the open at some point.
The river has not swelled any more since I last marked it.
The difficulties of working in this part of the river are very great.
Between Pokegama Falls and the Falls of St. Anthony, the river receives the waters of a number of other similar streams, all flowing from the lake region.
Just across the river the Arkansas was pouring in its tumultuous flood, and its confluence was the site of the future town of Napoleon, which in coming years was to be historic ground.
But the days of the steamboat were numbered when the civil war cast its blight over the land; and when the years of strife were over, so also was the rivertraffic which had created the floating palaces of the Mississippi.
We have but one similar structure in this country, which is that running from the Schuylkill River to Broad Street station, in Philadelphia.
Ever since the crests of the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains were thrust up above the sea, the river has been wearing them away, and bearing the scourings to the vast plain below.
According to the enactment whereby the States of Arkansas and Mississippi were created, the river boundary of the former extends to mid-stream; that of the latter to mid-channel.
Thus, by means of this sediment, the river has pushed its mouths fifty miles into the sea, confining its flow within narrow strips of land--natural levees made by the river itself.
So, to-day, the river is just as important as a highway of commerce as it was in the palmy days of the floating palace and river greyhound.
From St. Paul to Cairo the river flows between bluffs, the terraces of Champlain times, from ten to fifty miles apart.
Here the river flows from Pokegama Lake, falling about fourteen feet before quiet water is reached.
In the section of the Iron Gate, the work to be done consists in "canalizing" the river for a distance of a mile and a half, by building a wall on each side, and excavating the bed of the river between.
The next winter I read one morning that the body of Campbell Corot had been taken from the river at the foot of Cedar Street.
Then a pale-yellow streak shoots across the river farther up and I take it to be the Palisades, but again it may be jest a ray of sunshine.
By his twentieth year, then, John was established in an attic chamber near the North River with a public that, barring change in the advertising policy of the Vulcan, must inevitably become national.
In mythology, it is told that these mounts were originally joined and Hercules separated them to allow the river to pass between them.
The word "Tempe" refers to the Vale of Tempe, in Thessaly, through which the Peneus River flows.
The one who hollowed out an oak to cross a river never made a galley; those who piled up rough stones with girders of wood did not plan the Pyramids.
It was a question of working a process devised by the last-named pair, in which the water of the river acted the part of the line wire.
It is only in the touches of red in the fore of the river (touches unaccounted for by anything in the drawing) that you discern him at last, and find that you are looking not at nature but "a Turner.
He is said to have delighted in going into the fields and down the river to sketch, but all the very early drawings we have seen, including those purchased at his father's shop, are drawings of buildings, mostly in London.
They are careful, too, to place this trap in the neighborhood of some rushing river or some stilly pool where in the moonlight or at earliest flush of dawn the great creature must go to lap the cooling water.
Compound names for villages are very common in Dorset--the first word being the name of the river on which the village stands, the second being added to distinguish one village from another.
Sir Andrew was killed fighting bravely, and encouraging his men with his whistle, to hold out to the last; and the two Scotch ships with their crews, were carried into the river Thames.
To tumble me in and leave me: What if I had in the river dy'd?
The beautiful river Yarrow has few rivals as an inspirer of song.
I must have been at Bedhampton nearly at the time you were writing to me from Chichester--how unfortunate--and to pass on the river too!
Then spake the man clothed in plain apparel to the great magician who dwelleth in the old fastness, hard by the river Jordan, which is by the Border.
This plan, when it came to the point, he gave up, and only accompanied his friend down the river as far as Gravesend.
Then up he rose, And slowly as that veryriver flows, Walk'd towards the temple grove with this lament: 'Why such a golden eve?
The motor descended the long hill toward the river and the flat valley.
In one of the little mining villages along this river with the enchanting name there was a man physically like the people of the Iliad; and with that, monsieur, he had a certain cast of mind not unHellenic.
The matron said that they had picked up a man on the North River docks in an epileptic fit and the only name they could find on him was my New York address.
