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James River

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James River

River in Virginia; length 547 km/340 mi. It rises in the Allegheny Mountains in western Virginia and flows across the state, through Richmond, and into Chesapeake Bay, the largest of the inlets on the Atlantic coast of the USA. It is navigable by oceangoing ships to Richmond. The chief tributaries are the Chickahominy and the Appomattox.

Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in North America, was founded in 1607 on a peninsula in the James River.



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It had been my intention to proceed by James River and Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore; but one of the steamboats being absent from her station through some accident, and the means of conveyance being consequently rendered uncertain, we returned to Washington by the way we had come (there were two constables on board the steamboat, in pursuit of runaway slaves), and halting there again for one night, went on to Baltimore next afternoon.
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