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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... Winnipeg nobody would ever think this . Brown and lazy , it twines through the flat city with the motion of a convolvulus and then it wanders out again into the apparent sameness of the Manitoba plain . Not even after it has received ...
... Winnipeg nobody would ever think this . Brown and lazy , it twines through the flat city with the motion of a convolvulus and then it wanders out again into the apparent sameness of the Manitoba plain . Not even after it has received ...
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... Winnipeg is so slight that the river's trench cannot carry off more than a normal quantity of water in a given time . The second cause is a series of heavy autumn rains followed by a quick frost which freezes the moisture into the ...
... Winnipeg is so slight that the river's trench cannot carry off more than a normal quantity of water in a given time . The second cause is a series of heavy autumn rains followed by a quick frost which freezes the moisture into the ...
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... Winnipeg at a point some three hundred and forty miles east of the forks . Eventually some Saskatchewan water leaks out into the Nelson and reaches the brine of Hudson Bay , but it is wrong to claim , as some do , that the Nelson is a ...
... Winnipeg at a point some three hundred and forty miles east of the forks . Eventually some Saskatchewan water leaks out into the Nelson and reaches the brine of Hudson Bay , but it is wrong to claim , as some do , that the Nelson is a ...
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The Canadian River Systems | 3 |
Interlude | 30 |
The St Lawrence | 36 |
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