Sentences with phrase «miles up the river»

Originally he had been appointed to educate the Elector's son, Prince John Frederick, and resided at court at Torgau, about twenty miles up the river.

The 8.2 m high ball floated 25 miles up the River Thames from Tilbury Dock on Thursday, passing iconic London landmarks such as the Thames Barrier and Canary Wharf along the way.

Not exact matches

It paid better in Arizona / California as I was in a small town near the Colorado River (Quartzsite) and was willing to travel up to 125 miles to «shop» as i got paid to do my own errands.

Tara Jensen hosts a monthly pizza night, and every time she's sure that no one will come, and every time, nearly 100 people show up, finding their way to the town of Marshall, North Carolina, then heading six miles northwest on Route 70 along the French Broad River, winding around the knoll called Walnut, and stopping at the dirt driveway leading to her compound, which consists of an algae - covered pond, a shack in the woods, a brick oven, and two pitched - roof houses, one of which is a bakery that goes by the name of Smoke Signals.

The 2012 edition of the race starts on The Mall and requires competitors to complete a loop of 2.2 miles, taking them to the River Thames, Houses of Parliament, and back up past Buckingham Palace.

To take a dourado you don't have to paddle hundreds of miles up uncharted rivers, risking poisoned arrows, tarantulas or yellow fever.

With part of its $ 29,000 share of the grant, the Galena school district bought two tons of chum salmon from a Yukon River seafood processor 50 miles away that scoops up salmon with a fish wheel.

At Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Amur corktree was found to have spread up to two miles from the point of introduction, and over 800 trees were located and measured.

Think of that carousel in the river, or the bar that washed up, intact, a few miles from where it once served customers.

I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three reactors at the Hudson River nuclear power plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.

The lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan, want Cuomo to work with G.E. to continue cleaning up the river after the company finishes its six - year dredging project to remove PCBs on a 40 - mile stretch of the river.

One year ago, General Electric wrapped up its dredging of a 40 - mile stretch of the Hudson River from Fort Edward to Troy.

Flow, storage and transformation of materials and energy services performed by beavers if returned to a Utah river basin could add up to $ 411,000 per square mile

One morning later that spring, Boyd rolled up her pants and waded across the Devils River to Cedar Springs, a horseshoe - shaped site a few miles north of Mystic Shelter (see photo above).

Steve Mirsky: The rivers and that take the water — the fresh water hundreds of miles away where it winds up in places like Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

By the beginning of the first millennium A.D., the levee system had been extended much farther up river, lining the banks for several hundred miles, he estimated.

Based on earlier observations and modeling by Falke and a team of graduate students and faculty at CSU, the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, which is fed by the aquifer and used to flow about 70 miles, will dry up to about one - half mile by 2045.

Well, from 350 km (~ 220 miles) up civilization looks like clusters of lights nestled in river valleys and practically overflowing into the oceans or other bodies of water.

The 20 - mile trip took more than two days, leading mules, professors and students 3,000 feet up and over a high alpine plateau and down several thousand feet into a valley, where they slowly weaved their way along a river in the direction of a boulder field until they finally reached the glacier's base.

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

Since 2000, this nationally lauded restaurant has been using produce and animals from Stone Barns Center, a four - season farm and educational center 30 miles up the Hudson River.

Thus, though Penn shows us Chris» planned return route from the bus to the trailhead cut off by a seasonally - swollen river, he neglects to show that had Chris bothered to bring a map or simply scout up or down the river he'd have quickly found places he could cross (one only a quarter mile away).

It's a challenging hike — 22 miles from rim to rim; 5,000 feet down to the Colorado River; 6,000 feet up to the North Rim.

Then, roughly 50 miles into the UP, I stumbled upon another gorgeous view of the cantilevered Cut River Bridge, which spans across a river gRiver Bridge, which spans across a river griver gorge.

In visceral descriptions, Lourie recounts the treacherous, backbreaking 500 - mile trek up mountains and down rivers, on which London and his fellow cheechakos (a Native term for newcomers who were ignorant of the terrain and culture) risked their lives to reach the gold rush town of Dawson before winter.

The most amazing thing was that the bull shark responsible for the attacks, traveled up a river and attacked people swimming in a creek 5 miles from the ocean.

Sheer river banks rise up, towering over the river below, covered in deep forests and miles of green vineyards, lending an almost ethereal feel to the waterway.

Each autumn, the world's most concentrated sockeye salmon run flows up Canada's 7.5 - mile - long Adams River in British Columbia.

From mid August to late September, as the salmon return to the river, it is not uncommon for up to 50 bears to be seen within five miles along the shoreline.

The one day hike takes you from the Urabamba River Valley, up and over several mountains, ending 15 km (9 miles) later at Machu Picchu.

Machu Picchu is located 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Cusco at an altitude of 2,430 meters (7,970 ft.), 450 meters (1,480 ft.) up from the Urubamba River, which surrounds the site on three sides.

These early pink salmon are returning to Klawade River, about 6 miles farther up the inlet from Glendale Cove.

The canyon, created by the Colorado River over a period of 6 million years, is up to 18 miles wide, and a mile deep.

Just a couple miles up from the Healdsburg Square you'll find a few dozen boutique wineries along the little river.

Take the Smith's Tropical Paradise charter boat on a 2 - mile cruise up the 20 mile long Wailua River and visit the Fern Grotto.

The river flows 221 miles, from 12,000 feet up in the Andes to the Pacific Ocean.

Fish River Canyon, in places up to 17 miles wide, is surpassed in size only by the Grand Canyon.

Our Cocoa Beach area stand up paddle shop is located in the heart of Merritt Island — just blocks from our private launch into the Banana River Wildlife Sanctuary, a mere 3 miles from the ocean, and 5 miles from the Port Canaveral Cruise Ship Terminal.

We start at a classic «submergence» — where the river suddenly dries up mid-stream and goes underground for a mile or so before resurfacing at Cave Creek.

He grew up just five miles from the River Thames, which flows through the heart of London and has been a key part of the United Kingdom's growth.

But it had an oppressive indoor clamor; it turned out to be sounds recorded in the A Block at the Sing Sing prison 35 miles up the Hudson River.

It sucks up huge quantities of water from local rivers, turns it into toxic waste and dumps the contaminated water into tailing ponds that now cover nearly 70 square miles.»

The artist Andrea Fraser recorded the sounds at Sing Sing, the infamous prison 34 miles up the Hudson River, then fed them into a gallery that's roughly the same size as the prison's A Block.

I live up on a range of hills paralleling the Hudson River about 50 miles north of Manhattan, at an elevation about 800 feet above sea level.

Manatees swim more than seven miles from the Gulf of Mexico up the Weeki Wachee River straight into the spring.

NY Times: A multichannel mammoth stretching up to 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, the Brahmaputra River in Assam causes havoc every year when it floods.

To this day, over 40 miles of the river are still contaminated by tar sands after over a billion dollars was spent on clean up.

The 150,000 tonnes of methane bubbling up from sediment in the retention lake on the river Are over a year are the equivalent of emissions from 2,000 cows, or 25 million kilometres (15.5 million miles) travelled by cars, EAWAG added in a statement.

ON May 15, a floating dredge scooped up a bucket of mud from a narrow stretch of the Hudson River near Fort Edward, about 95 miles north of Kingston.

We read of many expeditions to gather data — from a young David Keeling taking water samples from rivers from Big Sur to Chincoteague, to Taro Takahashi doing the same from Atlantic depths of up to three miles, to Scott Stine tramping the Owens salt flats of California to examine prehistoric stumps, and to George Denton helicoptering in to collect data from remote New Zealand glaciers.