Water Gap

A water gap is an opening or notch which flowing water has carved through a mountain range. Water gaps often offer a practical route for road and rail transport to cross mountain ridges.

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Famous quotes containing the words water and/or gap:

    “He said he couldn’t make the boy believe
    He could find water with a hazel prong—
    Which showed how much good school had ever done him.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn’t want it, they said in their hundred voices, “No, not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there.””
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)