This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...falls, in California, are an extraordinary example of mountain cascades; one of them having an uninterrupted fall of 1,500 feet. The total descent of the water is about 2,600 feet. 38. The falls of the Zambeze, about 360 feet in height, rank next to those of the Niagara river. The Cascade mountains are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...falls, in California, are an extraordinary example of mountain cascades; one of them having an uninterrupted fall of 1,500 feet. The total descent of the water is about 2,600 feet. 38. The falls of the Zambeze, about 360 feet in height, rank next to those of the Niagara river. The Cascade mountains are celebrated for the number and beauty of their waterfalls. The Cascades of the Santiam, Willamette, and Columbia rivers, of Oregon, are unsurpassed for their beauty and grandeur by any others in the world. 39. Erosive Action.--The wearing or erosive power of rivers is almost beyond belief. The canon of the Colorado has been cut almost vertically to a depth, in many places, of more than a mile. 40. Deep gorges, sometimes exceeding 3,000 feet, have likewise been cut by the Columbia river and its tributaries. The canon of Crooked river is especially notable. 41. River Basins.--A river system comprises a river and all its branches. The surface of land drained by a river system is its basin or territory. 42. The rim of a river basin is called a watershed or divide. Generally, the divide is a mountain range, but sometimes it is an imperceptible ridge in some plain. 43. Divides.--The Height of Land which is the divide between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river is a plain. The water taken from Chicago river to feed a canal discharging into a tributary of the Illinois, is lifted by machinery but five feet. 44. The most notable divide of North America is in the Eocky mountains. Separated by a few miles are the sources of the Missouri, the Columbia, the Athabasca, and the Saskatchewan. 45. Drainage.--North America contains several large drainage basins, of which the Mississippi is the most important and the largest. East of the Appalachian system..
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