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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    “We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... we may leisurely
    Each one demand and answer to his part
    Performed in this wide gap of time since
    First we were dissevered.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)