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The Sakonnet is a "passage" not a "river"...a passage is is a body of water which flows from on body of water to another.
A river is a natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by tributaries.
The Sakonnet is a "passage" not a "river"...a passage is is a body of water which flows from on body of water to another. A river is a natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by tributaries. The Sakonnet could be called a "channel", a "strait", but not a river, which has a beginning and an end...the Sakonnet is a continuous body/passage of salt water which is continuously ebbing and flowing between Mt. Hope Bay and the Atlantic Ocean...
A river has a beginning and an end...while a passage is more metaphorical...it has no beginning or an end...