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ABOUT RIVERS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

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ABOUT RIVERS.

The Tigris is 1,150 miles long.
The Tiber is only 230 miles long.
The world-famous Orontes is only 240 miles long.
The Zambesi, in South Africa, is 1,800 miles in length.
Slow rivers flow at the rate of three to seven miles an hour.
Every ancient city of note was located on or near the sea or a river.
The Ganges is 1,570 miles long, and drains an area of 750,000 square miles.
The Hudson River, from its mouth to the lakes, is 400 miles in length.
The Mississippi and its tributaries drain an area of 2,000,000 square miles.
The branches of the Mississippi River have an aggregate length of 15,000 miles.
For over 1,200 miles the Nile does not receive a single tributary stream.
The river Jordan has its origin in one of the largest springs in the world.
In islands of too small size to have rivers, creeks are dignified by that name.
The Connecticut, the principal stream of New England, is 450 miles in length.
During a single flood of the Yang-tse-Kiang, in China, 600,000 persons were drowned.
The most extensive protective river works in Europe are at the mouth of the Danube.
The Rhine is only 960 miles long, but drains a territory nearly double the area of Texas.
The Irtish, in Siberia, is 2,200 miles in length, and drains 600,000 miles of territory.
The Nile, from its delta to the great lakes of Central Africa, is over 4,000 miles in length.
The Thames of England is 220 miles long. The river of the same name in Canada is 160.
The Columbia River, of Canada, is 1,400 miles in length; the stream of the same name in Oregon is 600.
The Arkansas River is 2,170 miles long, but at various points in its course is very thin for its length.
The Potomac River is only 500 miles long, and its lower course is rather an estuary than a stream.
The British Islands are better provided with rivers than any other country of the same size on the globe.
The Mississippi, at the point where it flows out of Lake Itasca, is ten feet wide and eighteen inches deep.—Selected.