The River Taw rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor. It reaches Bideford Bay in the Bristol Channel 72 km (45 mi) away on the north coast of Devon at a joint estuary mouth which it shares with the River Torridge.
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“We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called “Cook.” He said, “I ‘xpect we take in some water there, river so high,—never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don’t paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along.” It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted “paddle,” and we shot through without taking in a drop.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)