The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25
rpEAKIsH STREAMS.
,.o,e CHARACTERISTICS or
RfS''| SOME LARGE RIVERS

writing f'"'
.eaIus', sorrow
,nized fact in science that
IT. s sreat rivers have been thor
very Jew sslored by going up stream
cughly expo ,I 600 years travellers and ex-
For nearly 49, ,,ored TO discover the
pCers snt the Nile by ascending that
sources ~, u liver But by the time they
wonderful ohad the difficult part OF the
bad ret tSeir supplies and energy were
stream 'll'' and they could go no farther.
ezhaus'sNS S Nv seeking the sources OF
1t IS Iniy Oyerland routes that explorers
h0rs . y success. 1t was in this man
NEE. .S Sa'' Henry NJ. Stanley traced the
Df 'ia' the Kongo in Africa. In tins
route " nrocedure Frederick Schwatka
way O ~ to float down to Yukon
s ND Spoke found the secret Oh the riVef
Nile o.+ crrious rivers that
on me- ~ 70 the knowledge of men is
SS vT sheteyli, of eastern Africa,
us VAN and rapid stream, Astounding IN
auop ech and ferocious crocodlles.
MsnD ,,,h II flows for hundreds Of miles
A'u sSS fertile lands the immense vol
uuO" 70 wafer never reaches the sea. "A
I distance north Of the equator the
r , is lost in desert region a rev
nil, niles from the Indian ocean.
Come of the more recent explorers OF
,,ssta and British America claim that
tbp Mississippi can no longer be regard
"a az the largest river ON the North
,moric,p continent. This distinction
= claimed for the great Yukon river.
,ooordn0 to Ivan Petroff, who spent
over two years in Alaska, collecting
r,otarials for the last census, the Yukon
amntiA. into Norton sound about one
tbird more water than the Mississippi
nOus into the gulf of Mexico. The Yu-
ION basin comprises the larger part OF
northern Alaska, and 600 miles from
Ne month the river is mile III width.
MANY centuries before it was discovered
trwbite men it very likely served as
tie water highway into the interior,
for tribes that we believe TO have crossed
from Asia to the American continent.
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. 1t
is formed by the union Of two rivulets.
one Of which is very strongly impreg-
mated with iron, while the other,
meandering through peat marsh, i'm
bibes large quantities Of gallo acid.
Letters have been written with the nat
ural compound Of iron and gallo acid
which forms this small, yet wonderful,
stream.
The Rio de Vinagre, in Colombia, is
a stream the waters Of which, by adj
mixture with sulphuric acid, become SO
sour that the river has been appropri-
atey named the Rio de Yinagre, or
Vinegar river.
The Orange or Garieh river, in south
em Africa, rises in the mountains which
separate Natal from the Orange River
Free State. The length of this stream is
1000 miles. Its banks abound in vari-
Gus valuable woods, and around it are
found rich copper ores. In this stream
are many varieties Of fish, which are
found 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 il.
"China's Sorrow" a curious name
lor a river, is the title bestowed upon
the great Hoang Ho, which rises in the
mountains Of Tibet and follows a won
ueiully clrcuitous channel for $500
miles to the Yellow sea. The hayward
ness OF this mighty volume Of water
makes the river constant source Of anx-
ie'y and danger to the 40, 900, 900 OF
pople lnhabiting the central plain
asia II Is known to have suddenly
'ndnged Its course nine times. 1t has
moved Its mouth four degrees of lati.
!uue each time, emptying its vast floods
~ inherent directions, and finding q
new channel for itself where scores OF
Owns and villages have stood. The
.,'er mas greatly changed the physical
. ,n OF awide area, converting fer.
-; NV ieeions into a sandy desert or max.
s swallows Of them. Whether it il
"i'nin the power of modern science tc
oa'o 'nis great plain from disastrous
!. no~ ana changes Of the rivers bee
h so question which during late year.
% Nas Oeen widely discussed, especially il
S ae scientific circles of Paris and Lon
A. nuo'her remarkable river is the In
r;ae ' q great stream in Hindustan. i
g. o~s IN Tibet, and its course is a won
nor,S owl, One' On reaching Sussi, its mos
; .o.,1trn point, it turns southwark. lose,
IN Kai IN the hills and reappears at Take
in ihoniStan. The Indus is 1 700 mile,
NAM s gu, After receiving the waters o.
row o miputaries its channel grows mar
cbonu ana here it is divided into man,
tbo u some Of which never return I,
and r ruen. stream. 1t abounds in FISH
cratic ~ Classical "a river, the Ganges, ii
It nro ~ us course, like the Hoang Ho
the g rolllnent both in the religion ant
only fsraphy of India. 1t varies no
year - nOin season to season, but from