The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-02-10
GREAT FALLS AND WATER COURSES
COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIONS Of SOME OF The GREAT FALLS AND RIVER
TOLD IN AN INTERESTING MANNER BY ONE WHO HAS SEEN THEM
By Mr.. L. ]. w.

they greater of Niagara or the
mighty Africa The Falls of the
Zambesi Parana
They have times when the volume
less than that of times very
much 1t said that the a the Zmbes
force equal 900 horse and that
times much the electric force Of Niagara
about half mile wide They
pit 400 feet below The mist of the falling thick
the
falls as a heavy downpour.
The Zambesi
has 1000 miles of navgabe and Africa ranks
the Nile the Niger and the Kongo highlands
the
falls At that point drops 1000 feet within miles
jump 400 feet into of which have spoken The falls
La Guy like of the wonders the world which
oughy mghtiest
them they Queds These falls
them opens
which miles wide about FIVE miles long, the end
this lake.
volume of water estimated about cubic feet
than 900 power up
other falls but have
All of falls will eventually electricity
will when the largest of electrical will
found other the
Some of the chief cities already lighted and their traffic
force This of San Pul the metropolis of southern Brazil
1t the Rio de Santiago
Brazil of the richest of the world undeve
oped and there flowing
Ande that have latent developed
hgus illustrate the the Falls of the
Zembe the Ngra the Parana the of Quay
belongs
guaza mighty The Parana river has
flow than the Zmbes It's basin than
volume three The figures however
whole Parana of which the
the third the world
Amazon and the Kongo Its volume 80 than that of
the Mississippi and if could take all of the that flow
the Rhine Danube Eba add them other European
they would be equal the Parana low The
Plata which the of
that the ST. spout great
lakes, of which the Niagara part.
The Alto Paana of which the Iguazu forms
highlands Brazil the whole republic
far from Rio De
which border the Atlantic
hundred miles westward Brazil before the Alto
drop place fty-eight higher than the
highest Falls The width Niagara including
Island than heourths mile The whole
Iguau which the falls broken by cascades
miles And when the high the the food the whole
mighty with little corresponding
the rocks the middle of the Zambes The Niagara
thirty miles all the
The falls have their 900 feet above the Lake
perio which, Lake Victoria Africa largest
lake drops twenty-si flowing
Superior through Marys Huron there
another of from l2O
Lake Erie flows the Niagara quiet as a pond
The distance
waters slowly until they within mile of the falls when they
themselves for jump of 100 feet the below
that the flows for miles ravine
which 200 800 feet high little passes
peacefully on into Lake Ontario
The Niagara Falls discovered Father Hennepn
that time they widely
visited them 1855 He reached the island which by his
upper Zambes coming
he his initials and the discovery
that island, and still be few years
The gazu Falls probably known before the discovery
the Zmbes Niagara They the district which
the Jesui 1908 by King Philip Ill That
before Father Hennepn discovered
the both sides of the they
have known the Falls of La Guaa which 1875 miles
north of the Falls Of Iguazu
The capitalists Argentina have planned for the industrial
velopment of the Iguzu Falls and the
electric plant will be utilize the already
sucted the Government planning the
falls national hotel will be built
will be military where the guazu and the Parana join