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(Encyclopedia) Winnipeg, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, issuing from the north end of Lake of the Woods, SW Ont., Canada, and flowing in a winding course generally northwest to the southeast end of Lake Winnipeg, SE...

(Encyclopedia) Eider īˈdər [key], river, 117 mi (188 km) long, rising S of Kiel, N Germany, and flowing N to the Kiel Canal before turning west and meandering to the North Sea at Tönning. It is navigable for mos...

(Encyclopedia) Isis: see Thames, river, England. ...

(Encyclopedia) Achelous: see Akhelóos, river, Greece. ...

(Encyclopedia) Nen: see Nene, river, England.

(Encyclopedia) Dnipro, river, Ukraine: see Dnieper. ...

(Encyclopedia) Canton, river, China: see Pearl. ...

(Encyclopedia) Franklin, river: see Gordon, river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Si, river, China: see Xi.

(Encyclopedia) Vienne, river, 230 mi (370 km) long, rising in the Massif Central, central France, and flowing W past Limoges, then N into the Loire near Saumur. ...