water-passage

From Alexandria I travelled to Cairo, where I intended to hire a servant and a boat, for I wished to try the water-passage in preference to the land.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

The general opinion was, that she had better mount her fat mule and ride over the hill, as all agreed that it was very doubtful whether she would be able to cross the logs and jump the rocks which would bar her way by the water-passage.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

It has been known to result from stricture of the urethra, or water-passage, and also from local irritation along that passage.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

STRAIT, a narrow channel, or water-passage, connecting seas or lakes.

A Geography for Beginners. Kensey Johns 1864

INLET, an arm of the sea projecting into the land; a short water-passage between two bodies of water.

A Geography for Beginners. Kensey Johns 1864

From Alexandria I travelled to Cairo, where I intended to hire a servant and a boat, for I wished to try the water-passage in preference to the land.

Found and Lost 1860

From Alexandria I travelled to Cairo, where I intended to hire a servant and a boat, for I wished to try the water-passage in preference to the land.

Found and Lost Anonymous 1860

This peculiar construction of the muskrat's dwelling, with its water-passage, would afford all the means of escape from its ordinary enemies -- the beasts of prey -- and, perhaps, against these alone nature has instructed it to provide.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

Penetanguishene will not, however, be long the _ultima Thule_ of British military posts in Western Canada, as a large and most important settlement is making at Owen's Sound, on Lake Huron, connected by a long road through the wilderness with Saugeen river, another settlement on the shores of that lake, to prevent the necessity of the difficult water-passage round Cabot's Head; and a steamboat has been put on the route by the Canada Company, to connect Saugeen with Goderich.

Canada and the Canadians Volume I Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819