The Rivers of Canada: The Mackenzie, the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, the Red, the Saskatchewan, the Fraser, the St. JohnScribner, 1962 - 170 páginas |
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... delta of the Athabaska looks like the delta of most northern rivers , and is not an excessively large one : a maze of swamps and small channels with some principal threads of broad water which are the main courses of the stream finding ...
... delta of the Athabaska looks like the delta of most northern rivers , and is not an excessively large one : a maze of swamps and small channels with some principal threads of broad water which are the main courses of the stream finding ...
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... delta . It contains more than a hundred square miles of brown marsh grass and water , with a few willows inter- spersed . Its expanse is as flat as the rest of Manitoba and it is vir- tually uninhabited . As you near the forks where the ...
... delta . It contains more than a hundred square miles of brown marsh grass and water , with a few willows inter- spersed . Its expanse is as flat as the rest of Manitoba and it is vir- tually uninhabited . As you near the forks where the ...
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... delta , turned off at Petersfield into a little track leading inward , and came to its end in the Netley Marshes . It was the beginning of one of the finest days of my life , for there , at the end of the road , I found a camp with ...
... delta , turned off at Petersfield into a little track leading inward , and came to its end in the Netley Marshes . It was the beginning of one of the finest days of my life , for there , at the end of the road , I found a camp with ...
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The Rivers that made a Nation | 6 |
Interlude | 31 |
The Ottawa | 70 |
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