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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 10.

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American Wonders.

The greatest cataract in the world is the falls of Niagara, where the water from the great upper lakes forms a river three-fourths of a mile in width, and then being suddenly contracted plunges over the rocks in two columns to the depth of one hundred and seventy feet each.
The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, where one can make a voyage in the waters of a subterranean river, and catch fish without eyes.
The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, four thousand one hundred miles long.
The largest valley in the world is the valley of the Mississippi. It contains five hundred thousand square miles and is one of the most fertile regions of the globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being four hundred and thirty miles long and very deep.
The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Railroad, over three thousand miles in length.
The greatest natural bridge in the world is the Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek, in Virginia. It extends across a chasm eighty feet in width and two hundred and fifty feet in depth, at the bottom of which the creek flows.
The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the great Red Mountain, near Birmingham, Alabama. It is three hundred and fifty feet high, and fifty miles in length, of almost solid iron ore, the largest and richest deposit known in the world.
The largest deposit of anthracite coal in the world is in Pennsylvania, the mines of which supply the market with millions of tons annually.