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North River
/ˈnɔɹθ ˈɹɪv.ɚ/
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What does North River mean?
proper noun
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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/ˈnɔɹθ ˈɹɪv.ɚ/
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He had got into Jersey City on an early train, and a red, windy sunrise over the North River had given him a good appetite.
The appointed day was warm and delightful, and no less than twenty-four thousand people crossed the North River in the ferry-boats to enjoy the cooling breeze and to see the "Grand Buffalo Hunt."
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There, we took the steamboat down the North River towards New York, but stopped, some four hours’ journey short of it, at West Point, where we remained that night, and all next day, and next night too.
In proof of this, a North River farmer stated that thistles heretofore had mastered him in a certain field, but after sowing it with hemp not a thistle survived; and while ridding the land of this pest, the hemp yielded him nearly sixty dollars an acre, where previously nothing valuable could be produced.