Well I'm a river pilot on the River Mersey what I do is to bring the big ships into Liverpool and then take them out again when they've finished discharging their cargo.
The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.
While a cruiser will not have time to experience the entire 665-mile Chilkoot Trail from Skagway to the headwaters of the Yukon River, local hikes can give you a sense of what these prospectors faced.
Today what remains of the fort at Albazino is a grassy rectangular escarpment above the roiling river.
Engineers will have a huge job recovering pieces of the span from the Mississippi River and reconstructing what happen that caused this collapse.
She oversees a critical juncture in the Colorado River Valley, stewarding the very essence of what makes life possible in the arid American Southwest.
The foghorn on the Mendocino headlands moaned through the night like a lovelorn elk, the only clue to what lay outside my windows at the Albion River Inn.
And what you consider to be the system or method of thinking that bought you the house with a white picket fence is what has another man residing in his van down by the river.
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This man was the father of one of the boys who were watching, rolling their eyes at the antics of their elders, which were not so different from the antics of the youngsters crowded around a furtive campfire smoking cigarettes, on what was then the rugged other side of the river.
Her plan to open a new fine arts gallery downtown this weekend were on hold "until we know what the river is going to do, " she said.
Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.
For other, the river of people around gives a sense of invulnerability, a sense that no matter what happens, it is too big to be destroyed.
On the other side of the river Clyde in the Gorbals, a group of men is hard at work digging out what will eventually be a garden.
What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?
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