10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER PARTING»
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water parting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
water parting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management: The Art of ...
In general, a water parting (watershed in UK usage) is by no means always a
barrier, or along a line of hills or mountains, or even visible. Its chief virtues as a
political boundary are that it is precise, and that it separates drainage basins,
which ...
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The Settlement of Boundary Disputes in International Law
It is used not only to define the basin or drainage area of a river but also to
designate the crest or water-parting line separating two contiguous water-basins.
For delimitation purposes, however, the second meaning is usually intended.
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a little book on
water supply
watershed of a river is generally bounded by the highest ground in the
neighbourhood, and this is called the water parting, or, in America, the divide.
There are, however, many examples of rivers passing through gaps in ranges of
high hills, ...
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West Riding of Yorkshire
The boundaries of the West Riding are for the most part natural ones, usually
following the course of a stream or river, or the line of a water-parting. Beginning
in the extreme NW. at Carling Gill, the River Lune is followed to near Sedbergh, ...
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The Treaty of St. Germain: A Documentary History
... the following alternative line is suggested : Leaving the Swiss frontier at the
Reschen Pass south of Nauders, the line would coincide with the strategic line of
the 1915 Treaty, along the main water-parting of the Oetztaler and Stubaier Alps
as ...
The Treaty of St. Germain
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The Congo State: Or, the Growth of Civilisation in Central ...
ence of the Independent State of the Congo shall be limited to the north of the
German sphere in East Africa by a frontier following the 30th meridian east of
Greenwich, to as far as its intersection with the crest of the water-parting between
the ...
Demetrius Charles Boulger, 2012
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Sovereignty and Interpretation of International Norms
In other words, “the water-parting present in nature, over its representations on
maps and regardless of the accuracy thereof. The same criterion applies to the
unexplored regions and to the ones which have been insufficiently explored”67.
Carlos Fernández de Casadevante y Rom, 2007
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The West Riding of Yorkshire
It coincides with the Derwent to Abbey Brook, where it leaves it for the water-
parting between the Derwent and the Don, then runs down the Limb Brook and
the Sheaf, up (Beauchief) Abbey Brook, to and up the Meersbrook, down the
Shire ...
West Riding (York, County of).
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The Birth of a Plural Society: The Development of Northern ...
West, by the right bank of the aforesaid rivulet up stream to its source, and from its
source a line drawn southwards along the water parting between the watersheds
of the Great Luangwa or Loangwa River (which enters the Zambesi near ...
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The St. Lawrence, Its Basin & Border-lands: The Story of ...
Its area is 31,240 miles, but the area of the basin in which it rests is surprisingly
small, for the water-parting of Hudson's Bay approaches close to its northern
shore. The basin extends to the north to enclose Lake Nipigon, and, turning
westward ...
Samuel Edward Dawson, 1905
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER PARTING»
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water parting is used in the context of the following news items.
Science explains parting of Red Sea
Taken as a piece of science that establishes the physical possibility of a body of water parting, it is solid work, says Greg Holland, a hurricane researcher and ... «Independent Online, Dec 14»
Scientific explanation behind the parting of Red Sea
Taken as a piece of science that establishes the physical possibility of a body of water parting, it is solid work, says Greg Holland, a hurricane researcher and ... «Staunton News Leader, Dec 14»
No, really: There is a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red …
Taken as a piece of science that establishes the physical possibility of a body of water parting, it is solid work, says Greg Holland, a hurricane researcher and ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»
