The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-11

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crossed the mouths o. tributaries large
An xcrse % the great rivers 0e the world
The Amazon receives into Itself msrs
than 100 rfvsrs. II hAs 10 branches. and
X To s-GQ1ssticnzhEy the greatest water
sygsen ~ the gtcbe. II has eight rivers.
each es which has d ravsga5se length Ok
more than 1850 miles.
In coming hess | rass@1 the Tocansins,
M which you can steam for days into
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ocean x-ea uer which. when ws stop a..
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further inland from the ocean than Chi-
czg0. There are steamers from AanzOs
which ~sIi take yeu i.Ta miles further
on 90 Iquitos. psru- SO that yo0 can 80
by stfam upon this river .s5s miles west
ward from the seA
MANAGES IL on the Rio Negro /. has
steamers going up that river 40 miles
I could leave the Amazon before / get 10
Aanaes and 60 on q steamboat far On up
the Mass~ira- There are. inject more
than SOC miles % steam navigation On
the Amazon and its greater branches.
ard the whole river system "a estimated
as having something IKE 5osss miles %
rA-igabl~ waterways
Many Of these waterways however. are
small. The whole valley - covered ~ the
rivers ard streams. like net. and when
you reaisz. how large the vaiiey Is yea
begin 10 appreciate their extent
The Greatest Valley ON Earth
There is no valley in she world Ike tha.
OF the Amazon. IL - Tn miles wide and
80 miles long II is as wide 80 frorn
New York 70 Cleveland, and longer than
from Philadelphia to the great Safs lake
Il In mere like gr-s, slipping plain than
a valley. u has nos the high walls OF
other valleys. and It's Slopes 10 the north
and south are SO gradual that IL t. said
al South America could be connected
The Farana and Paraguay system run a.
rstsss Up 10 the ArsaxuE- You can 80 mp
the Paraguay ard its tributaries and by
carrying yoar canoes fsS miles can pat
,heys IA the tributaries 81 the Amazon
and n1a- dcwn 20 the Atlantic. THE
waters OF the Amazon and those ee the
CrsYpco which flow into the Atlantic at
the northern par. ~ South America, are
actually united by the CasssaGtare river.
So that with = shor, canal connecting with
the Paraguay one could really sail from
,ns edge Of the Caribbean ga 70 the
mouth OF the RIO De Ia Plata.
one Ineh te che Mile.
The siopa ~ tire yafisy from the Andes
to the sea il very slight Its fall IN t9ns
us.l4s Is only >. feel. or just about
inch 10 the rrise. Ycu vonid hardly think
tie water wuutd fow ar all with such a
fan beat IL does sgw aa. IL carries with
il sas' quantities q SIT Millions upon
millions ~ tons OF mud are taken dawn
by a. every day alto tae Atlantic. Tree
trunks ard hts q vegetation which grow
onty IN sbe Peruvian Andes have been
s@en floating in tn@ ocean ss miles east
Of ire mouth ~ the Amazon. and tAe
waters are sad - be stained as far as
&c miles from the mouth.
Here rse Gator ~ the water Ia yellow.
II is abo1s as sAsck as PEA soup and
ear see not only trees and grass fssating
hy rss< bat great beds ~ vegetation. aGat-
trx Islands which have bees torn from
the upsands and are being carried down
TO the sea Sons - these islands cover
as mach rs sr acre They rise and fall
ia waves as cur steamer goes by them.
New and then they catch on snags near
the shore and wass there for the. rac5s
or heavy wind 70 carry them Ct.
How the A~asos Came To he.
The rreater part as the Amazon valley
was made up by the mud brought dowa
by the river. Geoiextsts say that there
was osig:aaiiy . wide strait here joining