The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-01-16
Science and Philosophy.
What Supplies tho Goat Lahos 2


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that they. Grt water from underground
rivers. lie calls attention to the iact
that the surface tributaries CT the great
taE"s wall hardly make good the wear
AMI tear "l almo&"htnc absorption and
evaporation. Yet the lakes arc OF I'M
mouse s%", and constantly discharge
VasI volumes oi wafer through their
outlets, Sa"'t 81. Mare, Macilnaw, Nc,
without @cn$:h'r dim'nnilon Hence, as
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-" "I"'"S ,'u''' on t,c I"s'r,h ana S""'h,
-" .'.l,,' " '"' ''no"y Mo''h'"'h'' ana
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'n INC western slope is The ltlo Colorado
Wn''h rmpti's mo the Gun OF Ca!'i"r'
"l'' anu whi''' IS formed by the union
OF me GRAND ana Green Rivers, the
sources OF winch are also within the ter
F''ofy above mentioned.
The same statement is true Of tho CO.
!mhia River, flowing through the State
OF Oregon in The Pacific AMI Of lhc other
great streams aud rivers which now
norhwarl and westward into the Pacific
and the Northern Oceans. Here, then
we have radius from which a system
OF rivers proceeds in nj directions but
ono. On The side Of the great lakes
thcrn IS no surface river Of any size. Mr.
ShnIoldl pn's this fact and thn equally
unquc$uonabo one of the existence Of
! The lakes together, and constructs his
theory that the lakes arc lcd by suD,.r.
TAncn" members OF this river system,