The street Spook now used had once been a wide waterway capable of accommodating even large barges.
We had gone maybe half a mile when a wide waterway appeared on the left, its banks overgrown but precise and straight and clearly manmade.
In some cases on bridges small crossing a wider waterway pylons or crossbars for the conductors can be mounted.
A pretty wide and deep waterway has been excavated in the shallow lagoon bed to have big ships access the complex.
In 15th century until 18th century, the channel was wide enough and important waterway for ships traveling along northern Javanese coast to the Spices islands.
Clearly a larger, wider and deeper waterway was needed.
Sharpe jerked his head down the small valley to where the stream joined the wider waterway.
A 4.2-kilometre long, 20-30-metre wide man-made waterway will run through the estate, linking both rivers.
They came out into a wide waterway which ended in docks.
By the Han Dynasty, the term Jiang was already applied to other large wide waterways.