Mary's River from Georgia.

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Inside the 592 rooms and 19 suites, guests are treated to unending views of downtown, the Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, the Saint Lawrence river and Mount Royal, the mountain that gave the city its name.

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If you drive almost anywhere in Danville, Virginia around Christmastime, you can see a 28-foot-high metal bust of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus atop the sprawling red-brick Dan River mill.

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But Mary Getchell, a spokeswoman for the ecology department, said there are uncertainties in linking salmon survival with river flows.

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