Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-24
AMAZONIAN FLOODS.
FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL DEL
ICE OF THE GREAT RIVER.

Paradise of the swamp Loving Brutes.
Floating Islands ruled with Refugee,
Of the Brute Creation.
Tho worst foundations of Louisiana
and eastern Arkansas are but spring
freshets compared with the monster
eoods that visit the Amazon valley every
wear with q regularity equaled only by
astronomical events and tax collections.
The rainfall Of northern Brazil Is about
hree times that Of the webfootiost coun.
lies Of oregon. and in midsummer the
thunder showers that drench the woods
every afternoon resemble daily cloud.
bprst, On tho Northern Pacific no Othoi
word would be applied 10 an atmospheric
waterfall. darkening the air like q Lon.
don winter fog for hours together, aud
swamping house. IL the roof should
leak. through nm aperture Of few
square inches.
Rains of that sort are apt TO occur day
after day for series Of weeks, and theft
ef, 4 ON the lowlnnds can DO only i'm
perfectly indicated by tho fact that the
Amazon river drains an area of more
thau $1,000 -, ,ats a. "e -,
tas'lI w. ,a,s, i,ra,ar e.. Nh
but IT, largest ailluents arc dwarfed hy
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TN M. 'ui.s Of new vegetation
no pressure OF tho surging food
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M.aHSs may DO tenanted only by river
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,su .t's'u' exploration, as well as OF in
Sris,n On, ana ,n a week after its birth the
N"NeN hill hWlIlIh with animal rpfu.