Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — Wonders of the American Continent. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of the American Continent.

The greatest cataract in the world is the falls of Niagara, where the water from the great upper, lakes forms a river three-fourtlis of a mile in width, and then being suddenly contracted, plunges-over the jocks in twd volumes to the depth of 175 feet. The greatest cave in the world is the -Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, where aiiy one can take a voyage on a subterranean rivet and catch fish ; without eyes. The greatest river in the world is” the Mississippi, 4,000 miles long. The largest valley of the world is the valley of the Mississippi. It contains 5,000,000 square miles, add is one of the most fertile regions of the globe. The greatest city park in the world is in Pniladeipliia. It contains 2,700 acres. Tne greatest grain port in the world is hicago. The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being 430 miles long and 1,000 feet deep. The longest railroad at present is the Pacific railroad, over 3,000 miles in length. The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the Pilot Knob of Missouri. It is 250 feet high and two miles in circuit. The best specimen of Grecian architecture in the World is the Girard College for orphans, Philadelphia. The largest aqueduct in the world is the Croton aqueduct, New York. Its length is forty and a half miles, and its cost $12,5000,000. The largest deposit of anthracite coal in the world are in Pennsylvania, the mines of whiqh supply the market with millions of tons annually and appear to be inexhanstable.—[Coal Trade Journal.