The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Swaleand Ure are each about 60 m. long. Goole is a large and growingport, and the river bears a considerable traffic up to York. Thereis also some traffic up to Boroughbridge, from which the UreNavigation (partly a canal) continues up to Ripon. TheSwale is not navigable. The chief tributaries are the Nidd,the Wharfe, the Don and the Aire from the W., and the Derwentfrom the , but the detailed consideration of these involvesthat of the hydrography of the greater part of Yorkshire ().All, e
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Swaleand Ure are each about 60 m. long. Goole is a large and growingport, and the river bears a considerable traffic up to York. Thereis also some traffic up to Boroughbridge, from which the UreNavigation (partly a canal) continues up to Ripon. TheSwale is not navigable. The chief tributaries are the Nidd,the Wharfe, the Don and the Aire from the W., and the Derwentfrom the , but the detailed consideration of these involvesthat of the hydrography of the greater part of Yorkshire ().All, especially the western tributaries, traverse beautiful valleys,and the Aire and Don, with canals, are of importance as affordingcommunications between the manufacturing district of southYorkshire and the Humber ports. The Derwent is also drainage area of the Ouse is 4133 sq. m. It is tidal up toNaburn locks, a distance of 37 m. from the junction with theTrent, and the total fall from Boroughbridge is about 40 ft. (3) A river of Sussex, rising in the Forest Ridges between â .-a -. Cinclus mexicanus. Horsham and Cuckfield, and draining an area of about 200 sq. m.,mostly in the Weald. Like other streams of this locality, itbreaches the South Downs, and reaches the English Channelat Newhavcn after a course of 30 m. The eastward drift ofbeach-building material formerly diverted the mouth of thisriver from its present place to a point to the east near Ouse is navigable for small vessels to Lewes, and Newhavcnis an important harbour. OUSEL, or Ouzel, Anglo-Saxon Osle, equivalent of the (a form of the word found in several old English books),apparently the ancient name for what is now more commonlyknown as the blackbird (17 v.), Turdits morula, but at the presentday not often applied to that species, though used in a compoundform for birds belonging to another genus and family. The water-ousel, or water-crow, is now commonly namedthe dipper âa
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