Salt River lost its prestige as a possible water highway and became mere scenery.

The river Vistula had been one of the great European water highways.

No evidence that the brown, snag-filled, fast-moving Missouri used to be one of the great water highways of the world.

Douglas County lies on one of the major water highways used by early travelers and voyagers of inland America.

Soon the Amsterdam approached what looked like a great two-lane water highway with a median strip: the Gatún Locks.

Dr. Baldwin built a dam across the Seneca River to generate energy and a private canal to keep the integrity of the water highway.

Pottery and brick-making industries were established because the land had rich clay deposits and the navigable Raritan offered a water highway to ship out products.

As for the Mississippi River itself, the great water highway is returning to normal, safely within its banks, going about its business as if nothing had happened.

This enabled them to make full use of several points where their artillery could reach anything on the water, thus deterring Union use of the water highway.

Within the Chambira Basin, all of the rivers are connected in some way with tributaries, thus creating a water highway in the Peruvian jungle.

The Charles River offered the opportunity for early settlers to acquire land, wealth and freedom from political and religious oppression by providing a water highway to the interior.

Twenty-five years later the Northern Pacific Railway and other rail lines finally arrived, fulfilling the dream of a rail and water highway from coast to coast.

For more than 300 years the 410-mile-long river has been a water highway for New England, but for almost 150 years it was a dumping ground for city sewerage and industrial waste.

The River Thames has served several roles in human history, being an economic resource, a water highway, a boundary, a fresh water source; a source of food and more recently a leisure facility.

Together with the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers, the French River formed part of the water highway from Montreal to Lake Superior in the days of the fur trade.

Plans to begin blasting rock formations in the Paraguay-Parana rivers this June, a preliminary step in a proposed 2,000-mile water highway linking five South American countries, have prompted sharp criticism from environmentalists.

Two of these water highways are the Leaf Lake chain, which drains south to the Gulf of Mexico, and Otter Tail Lake, which drains north to Hudson Bay.

The main artery Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825 and provided the key link in a water highway to what would become the Midwestern United States, connecting to the Great Lakes at Buffalo.

A billion-dollar project to build a water highway that would allow year-round shipping down the Paraguay and Parana Rivers is currently under consideration by the governments of Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.

The settlers' wooden row houses of the 1600's have been converted to brightly painted condominiums and windsurfers race where tall ships once sailed on the mighty St. Lawrence River, the vital water highway and gateway to the city, then and now.

Here, spindly networks of rivers, canals and lagoons nourish a seemingly infinite number of rice paddies and coconut groves, while sleek houseboats cruise the water highways from one bucolic village to another - try stopping at Kollam (Quilon).

Then Rene-Robert Sieur de La Salle, nine years later, came along the river from the opposite direction and, being a soldier and understanding the value of a water highway like the Mississippi and its drainage system, claimed the whole business for France.

The only guardrail protecting Ms. Wallace's house and the rest of this tiny town from the Mississippi's water highway is a wall of dirt, a levee, which the United States Army Corps of Engineers has deemed eight feet too low to protect against catastrophic floods.

There a nobleman could also have water frontage on the Thames, the great ancient water highway, and be free of the stink, smoke and social tumult of the City of London downstream and generally downwind to the east, and its constant threat of fires.

So far, having mingled inconspicuously with the broad stream of life that never ceased to pulse on the great water highway had saved them from being called on to produce their papers; and they thought it the most evil luck that, after reaching almost the outskirts of China, they must now face the risk of being questioned.