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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... flow on and on like the Nile , but less than a thousand miles from its Rocky Mountain source it strikes Lake Winnipeg ... flows through Alaska before , after a weirdly erratic course , it reaches the Bering Sea . In the Rockies the two ...
... flow on and on like the Nile , but less than a thousand miles from its Rocky Mountain source it strikes Lake Winnipeg ... flows through Alaska before , after a weirdly erratic course , it reaches the Bering Sea . In the Rockies the two ...
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... Flows . " Nobody , as he truly pointed out , can bathe in the same river twice . - This old idea re - occurred to me many times when I contem- plated the Columbia Icefield . Out of this massive survival of the Ice Age flow two of the ...
... Flows . " Nobody , as he truly pointed out , can bathe in the same river twice . - This old idea re - occurred to me many times when I contem- plated the Columbia Icefield . Out of this massive survival of the Ice Age flow two of the ...
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... flows with just enough velocity not to be sluggish , and only in its rapids with too much velocity to be navigable . So wide is its channel , so even its flow , that in spring freshet it never floods higher than ten feet unless piles of ...
... flows with just enough velocity not to be sluggish , and only in its rapids with too much velocity to be navigable . So wide is its channel , so even its flow , that in spring freshet it never floods higher than ten feet unless piles of ...
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The Rivers that made a Nation | 6 |
Interlude | 31 |
The Ottawa | 70 |
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