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The water-communication of the interior of North Africa is not worth the name.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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Standing a mile higher in the world, water-communication is its dependence for movement of persons and things almost as exclusively as with the Queen of the Adriatic.
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Beside these facilities for water-communication, there exist three other branches from the easternmost entrance, called Morotaba, one of which joins the Samarahan river, and the two others flow from different points of the mountain range already mentioned.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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Trade is assisted by water-communication through the Grand canal to the Shannon.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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So long as the subject of trans-Alleghany water-communication was viewed as one merely affecting individual States, it possessed no national interest.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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Wherever a water-communication on Borneo presents, the indolence of the
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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And, as already mentioned, he urges immediate occupation of Chesapeake Bay, which, by its supposed water-communication with the St. Lawrence, would enable Spain to vindicate her rights, control the fisheries of Newfoundland, and thwart her rival in her vast designs of commercial and territorial aggrandizement.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Volkhof, flowing through Novgorod, formed part of a great waterway which afforded almost uninterrupted water-communication between the Baltic and the Black Sea; and we know that some time afterwards the Scandinavians used this route in their journeys to Constantinople.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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The water-communication has likewise in recent years been greatly improved.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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The Sheksna is a river which falls into the Volga, and forms part of the great system of water-communication connecting the Volga with the Neva.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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