Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — Rhine’s Wanderings. [ARTICLE]

Rhine’s Wanderings.

A remarkable thing about the Rhine is its length for so small a river. Unlike the Nile, which contains less water at Cairo than at Berber, 1,500 miles upstream, the Rhine has numerous afiluents, but never attains the dignity of a real river, as Americans understand such definitions, until It enters Holland. ; The “German Rhine’’ owes Its orlgin to the Swiss mountains, wanders with apparent aimlessness--first west and then north and northwest, after leaving Lake Constance—until it enters Holland, where it becomes as sluggish as a#y Dutchman who ever dwelt in New Amsterdam.