Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1903 — WAVES OF WATER. [ARTICLE]

WAVES OF WATER.

The Nile is the only river in the world that flows for 1,000 mites without a tributary. Off the Cape of Good Hope waves thirty-eight feet high from trough to crest have been noted. Prismatic lake, in the Yellowstone National park, is the largest body of hot water in the world. Three rivers as big as the Rhine would just equal in volume the Ganges, three Gangeses the Mississippi And two Mississippi the Amazon. The St Lawrence river is frozen four months of the year, and its navigation is so difficult that an average of one steamer a month is wrecked in its w-a-tere. Askel Chin, in Tibet, is the lake which lies at a greater height than any other in the world. Its level is 16,600 feet. The lowest is the Dead sea. 1.200 feet below the sea level.