The first English settlers to establish a permanent colony in America did it not at Plymouth but along the shore of the James River west of Chesapeake Bay.

第一批在美国建立永久殖民地的英国定居者不是在普利茅斯，而是在切萨皮克湾以西的詹姆斯河沿岸。

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They would sail down the river to where it emptied into the Chesapeake Bay.

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The Potomac River flows from Georgetown into the Chesapeake Bay, and Pittsburgh is on the Ohio River.

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Minor tidal flooding was possible along the Delaware coast, the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the lower Potomac River, the National Weather Service said.

NPR: Snow Storm Barrels Through Midwest To Mid-Atlantic