World’s Widest River
? is the largest river on the face | on the globe, and is, according to j Professor Agassiz, 160 miles in width at its mouth. The disI tance from the source of the I Amazon in the Andes to the ! Atlantic Ocean is 2,000 miles in * a direct line, but by the course of the river nearly 4,000 miles. The Amazon drains an area of 2,500,000 square miles- — ten times the area of France, and in connection with the river and its tributaries, there are said to be r 50,000 miles of navigable water, one half of which is suitable for '' stea m navigation by largo vessels. s of the Amazon’s tributaries is in „ proportion to its magnitude. " More than twenty superb rivers, 1,000 miles and upwards in length, pour their waters into it. and streams of less importance are numberless. At. the junction of the Yucaynli with the Amazon a lino of fifty fathoms does not reaedi the bottom, and in breadth it is more like a sea than a river, the longost tributary, the Madeira, having a length of 2,000 miles.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 4
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185World’s Widest River Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 4
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