Great River
Also known as Great River of Narnia, the Great River, River Rush
Narnia’s principal river, running eastward to the sea near Cair Paravel. Its crossings, bridges, and valleys structure several journeys through the country.
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In the chronicles
These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.
The Magician's Nephew1 cited passage⌄
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe2 cited passages⌄
- Chapter XII · paragraph 25
…ills and valleys and, winding away like a silver snake, the lower part of the great river. And beyond all this, miles away, was the sea, and beyond the sea the sky, full of clouds which were just turni…
Open passage → - Chapter XVII · paragraph 15
…out eight o'clock. Next day they began marching Eastward down the side of the great river. And the next day after that, at about tea-time, they actually reached the mouth. The castle of Cair Paravel on…
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Prince Caspian9 cited passages⌄
- Chapter II · paragraph 10
… continued Susan in a dreamy and rather sing-song voice, "at the mouth of the great river of Narnia. How could I forget?"
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 42
… rather indistinctly, the Western Mountains. On his left was the gleam of the Great River, and everything was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the waterfall at Beaversdam, a mile away. There wa…
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 71
…e now vanished. But we believe it was far from here, down at the mouth of the Great River, on the very shore of the sea."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 39
…the right, the worst that can happen is wasting a little time by striking the Great River too soon and not cutting off the corner."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 57
…this is not the Rush, it's flowing roughly north and so it must fall into the Great River anyway. I think I passed something that might have been it, on my way down. So if we go down-stream, to our rig…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 3
…rse what the children and the Dwarf wanted to see as soon as possible was the Great River below them, and Beruna, and the way to Aslan's How.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 10
… them to the horizon and, between it and them, the broad silver ribbon of the Great River. They could see the specially broad and shallow place which had once been the Fords of Beruna but was now spann…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 54
…ely in one another's faces, and grasped their weapons. Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 41
…the Narnians. In a few minutes all Miraz's followers were running down to the Great River in the hope of crossing the bridge to the town of Beruna and there defending themselves behind ramparts and clo…
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