To their great joy the trees became thinner the farther they advanced, and in the afternoon they suddenly came upon a broad river, flowing swiftly just before them.
And it further controlled neither of the headwaters for the two great rivers that it would rely so heavily upon for its civilization, the Tigris and Euphrates, both of which begin further to the north within Turkey.
Even Dad, at 73 looked young! We sat in rocking chairs on the deck, the warm breeze blowing on our faces, admiring the lush green trees lining the mighty river.
The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained by a high rate of evaporation, its water level dropping a meter and a half every year!
That meant that the whole country below them lay in the evening light - forest and hills and valleys and, winding away like a silver snake, the lower part of the great river.
" In our castle of Cair Paravel, " continued Susan in a dreamy and rather sing-song voice, " at the mouth of the great river of Narnia. How could I forget? "
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydro-electric dam in the world, more than 1.5 kilometres wide across the Yangtze River, the world's third longest river.