This island seems formed by nature to be the mistress of Greece, for it is entirely surrounded by a
navigable ocean which washes almost all the maritime parts of that country, and is not far distant on the one side from Peloponnesus, on the other, which looks towards Asia, from Triopium and Rhodes.
These men painted that hideous wilderness in charming colours, told us that we should find a country watered with
navigable rivers, and inhabited by a people that would either inform us of the way, or accompany us in it.
I should have demanded the freedom of all
navigable rivers for everybody, that the seas should be common to all, and that the great standing armies should be reduced henceforth to mere guards for the sovereigns.
A succession of
navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.
"Now the Chamelecon river seems to run to within a short distance of there, but there is no telling how far up it may be
navigable. If we can go by boat it will be much more comfortable.
"A Dutch landscape along a
navigable river which perfuses it till to the background."
The ape-man had seen that the river at the point he had left it was growing narrow and swift, so that he judged that it could not be
navigable even for canoes to any great distance farther toward its source.
There is a slodgy theme in several keys at once, meaning mud-banks, and another for the
navigable canal, and the exit into the Baltic is in C sharp major, pianissimo."
The German airship was essentially a
navigable balloon very much lighter than air; the Asiatic airship was very little lighter than air and skimmed through it with much greater velocity if with considerably less stability.
With the high plain that there interposed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adventurer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river became
navigable to the tide.
"The commerce of the German empire[2] is in continual trammels from the multiplicity of the duties which the several princes and states exact upon the merchandises passing through their territories, by means of which the fine streams and
navigable rivers with which Germany is so happily watered are rendered almost useless." Though the genius of the people of this country might never permit this description to be strictly applicable to us, yet we may reasonably expect, from the gradual conflicts of State regulations, that the citizens of each would at length come to be considered and treated by the others in no better light than that of foreigners and aliens.
The State itself is penetrated by a large
navigable river for more than fifty leagues.