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It provided a means of getting to the Severn, round which lay the great Roman roads then coming into existence, and made possible the great waterway to the heart of England--through the Severn and its tributaries. It brought the east and the west together by the swiftest and easiest ways known to those times.

Thus our expedition was at the time of the dry season, when the great river and its tributaries were more or less in a normal condition.

If they had quietly paid the tax of threepence, they would have ceased to be freemen, and would have become tributaries of England.

From this great treasury of waters issue forth limpid streams, which, augmenting as they descend, become main tributaries of the Missouri on the one side, and the Columbia on the other; and give rise to the Seeds-ke-dee Agie, or Green River, the great Colorado of the West, that empties its current into the Gulf of California.

Finally, because the presence of Hoplias in a river has the potential to reduce movement between tributaries, with implications for regional population dynamics and genetic divergence, we did a second experiment in the field streams (Movement experiment) to test the prediction that Hoplias would restrict movement by Rivulus between tributaries when a predator occupied sites between them.

Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga, said various projects on Ganga have been completed and work on its tributaries including the Yamuna is going on.

Hundreds of residents from various areas of the city had been evacuated, including those near the shores in the Bucana area, as the Davao River and other tributaries swelled and dumped excess water into low-lying areas.

PESHAWAR, July 01, 2011 (Balochistan Times): The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to constitute district level committees to take appropriate measures under relevant laws regarding encroachments on bank of rivers, streams and tributaries. The decision was taken in a high-level meeting held here under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary P&D Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

During the annual springtime spawning runs, participants collect information about the presence or absence of herring on a number of local tributaries within the Hudson River Estuary.

This would allow fish access to the Derwent and tributaries as far as Ebchester, 10 miles upstream.

While the Colorado River has been consistently sweeping downstream the few fine-grained sediments that are brought in by its tributaries, researchers have discovered a different trend for large rocks and boulders.