The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-11
SOURCES OF GREAT RIVERS

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat " HE Shannon has It's source in a
 lake, the Rhone in a glacier and
 the Abyssinian branch of the Nile in confluence of fountains. The country where some of the mightiest rievrs of the globe have their rise has not yet been sufficiently explored to render their true source ascertainable. The origin of others Is doubtful, owing to a number of rills presenting equal claims to be con sdered as the riverhead but many are current of which is speedily swelled by tributary waters, ultimately flowing in broad and deep channels to the sea.
 Ingils, who wandered on foot through many lands, had fancy, which he gen. orally indulged, to visit the sources of rivers when the chances of his journeys threw him in their vicinity.
 Inglis, who wandered on foot through many lands had fancy. which he gen. erally indulged, to visit the sources ol rivers when the chances of his journeys threw him in their vicinity
 Such pilgrimage will often repay the traveller by the scenes of picturesque and secluded beauty into which it leads him and even when the primal fount is in- significant in itself, and the surrounding landscape exhibits the tamest features, lthere is a reward in the association that are instantly wakened up-the thought of humble and modest commencement | issuing in long and victorious career | of the tiny Till proceeding. by gradual advances, to become an ample stream, fertilizng by it's exudations, and rolling on to meet the tides of the ocean, bear ing the merchandise of cities upon it's | bosom.
 | The Duddon, one of the most pictur- esque of the English rivers, oozes UT through bed of moss near the top oi wrynose Fell, desolate solitude. yet remarkable for It's huge masses of pro- truding crags and the varied and vivid colors of the mosses watered by the stream.
 l Petrarchs letters and verses have given celebrity to the source of the Sor- gues--the spring Of Vaucleuse, which
 
 cavern, and forms at once copious tor. rent.
 The Scamander is one of the most re- markable rivers for the grandeur of its source-a yawnng chasm in Mount Gar garus, shaded with enormous plane trees and surrounded with high cliffs from which the river impetuousy dashei in all the greatness of the divine origir assigned to 1t by ancient fable. To discover the source of the Nile, hit from the knowledge of all antiquity, wa, the object of Bruces adventurous jour ney, and we can readily enter into hi. emotions as he stood by the two foun tains. after. all the tolls and hazards h' had braved.
 Bruce, however, labored under an errol in supposing the stream he had followed to be the main branch of the Nile. H' had traced to its springs the smaller O the two great rivers which contribute t' form this celebrated stream.
 Upon examining the map of country we see many of it's rivers travelling in op posite directions and empty their water into different seas, although their source l frequently lie in the immediate neighbor hood of each other.
 The springs of the Missouri which pro ceed southeast to the Gulf of Mexico and those of the Columbia, which flow northwest to the Pacific ocean, are onl. mile apart. while those of some o the tributaries of the Amazon. flowinl