The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-22
WONDERFUL STREAMS.
One River Is Black and Another Is
Sour as Vinegar.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
One Of the most curious rivers that have
come to the knowledge of men is the
webbe ShebeyH. of Eastern Africa, a
deep and rapid stream, Astounding in
strange fish and ferocious crocodiles. AL
though it flows for hundreds of miles
through fertile lands, the immense vol
ume of water never reaches the sea. A
short distance north of the equator the
river is lost in desert region a few miles
from the Indian Ocean.
Some of the more recent explorers of
Alaska and British America claim that
the Mississippi can no longer be regarded
as the largest river on the North Ameri-
can continent. This distinction Is claim
ed for the great Yukon river According
to Ivan Petroff who spent over two years
in Alaska collecting materials for the
last census, the Yukon empties into Nor
ton sound about one-third more water than
the Mississippi pours into the Gulf of
Mexico. The Yukon basin comprises the
larger part of Northern Alaska, and 500
miles from its mouth the river is a mile
in width. Many centuries before it was
discovered by white men it very likely
served as the water highway into the in
terror for tribes whom we believe to have
crossed from Asia to the American con-
tinent. The Yukon river is over 1000 miles
in length.
Travellers report that in Algeria there
exists small stream which the chem
istry Of nature has turned into ink II
is formed by the union of two rivulets.
one of which is very strongly fnpree-nat i,
ed with iron, while the other, meandering
through peat marsh, imbibes large
quantities of gallic acid. Letters have
been written with the natural COMMAND
OF iron and gallic acid which forms the
small yet wonderful stream.
The Rio de Vinagre, in Columbia. is a
stream the waters of which, by admix-
ture with sulphuric acid, become so sour
that the river has been appronriateII,
named the Rio de Vinagre, or Vinegar
river.
The Orange, or Garieh, river. in South
ern Africa, rises in the mountains which
separate Natal from the Orange Free
State. Thel ength of this stream is
LOO miles. Its banks abound in various
rich copper ores. In this stream are
many varieties of fish, which are forn1
until the river passes through a rocky
region containing copper, below which
the water is said to be poisonous. almost
instantly killing the fish that venture
near II.
Another remarkable river is the Indus
a great stream in Hindostan. It rises
in Thibet, and its course is a wonderfu,
one. On reaching the Sussi, it's mos.
northern point, it turns southwark. LOSING,
itself in the hills, and reappears at Ia
kot, in Kohistan The Indus is l 700 mile
in length. After receiving the waters o.
many tributaries its channel grows mar
row, and here it divides into MANY chan
nels, some of which never return to the
parent stream. 1t abounds in FISH ana
crocodiles.
That classical river the Ganges Is
erratic in its course like the Hoanp HI
1t is prominent both in the religion ana
geography of India. 1t varies not onlv
from season to season, but from wear -
year and frequently exchanges old mass.
ages for new ones. 1t has been said thst
the Ganges delivers into the sea every
year 54s0O0OoO tons Of mud, sand and other
solid matter.