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(Encyclopedia) Akimiski, island: see James Bay, Canada. ...

(Encyclopedia) Narrows, the, strait: see New York Bay. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fort William: see Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada. ...

(Encyclopedia) Port Arthur: see Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada. ...

(Encyclopedia) Delaware dĕlˈəwâr, –wər [key], river, c.280 mi (450 km) long, rising in the Catskill Mts., SE N.Y., in east and west branches, which meet at Hancock. It flows SE along the New York–Pennsylvan...

(Encyclopedia) Muir Glacier: see Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. ...

(Encyclopedia) Warrington, uninc. residential town (1990 pop. 16,040), Escambia co., extreme NW Fla., a suburb of Pensacola, on Pensacola Bay. Although chiefly residential, it has shipyards and waterfront industries...

(Encyclopedia)  CE5 Sassafras, Sassafras albidum, a member of the laurel family laurel, common name for the Lauraceae, a family of forest trees and shrubs found mainly in tropical SE Asia but also abundant in tro...

(Encyclopedia) Lewis Hills, section of the Long Range, W Newfoundland island, Canada, S of the Bay of Islands. It rises to 2,672 ft (814 m), the highest point on the island. ...

(Encyclopedia) Horton, river, c.275 mi (440 km) long, rising in a lake N of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing NW to Franklin Bay, a part of the Beaufort Sea. ...