Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — WAVES OF WATER. [ARTICLE]

WAVES OF WATER.

Tbe Nile i« the p;;!y liver in the voil-.I t.lu'ij H ,\vs i'„r miles without :l tti; t?t:l£w A the <’.•>•(* of Geo:! waves til./; •b: feet high to crest lift ve been noted. rrisjuafic lake, in tbe Yellowstone National park, is the larges; body -of hot water in tlie world. Three rivers as big as the'* Rhine would just equal in volume the Ganges, three Gaugeses the Mississippi and two Misrissippis 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 mouth is wrecked in its waters. Askel Chin, In Tibet, is the lakd which lies at a greater height than any other in the world. Its level is 1Q.600 feet. The lowest is the Dead sea, 1,200 feet below the sea level.