THE VICTORIA FALLS, IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA. WHICH WERE DISCOVERED JUST 100 YEARS AGO by Dr. David Livingstone, missionary and explorer. At the Victoria Falls, the Zambesi river is more than a mile wide and drops 420 feet into a vast fissure of its own making, a mile long and only 50 yards to 80 yards across. The roar oi the waters as they tumble can be heard for miles. Lord Curzon, in “Tales of Travel,” wrote of Victoria Falls: “No waterfall in the world can show any spectacle—though it i: sound as well as sight—to compare with this.”
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27824, 24 November 1955, Page 11
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98THE VICTORIA FALLS, IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA. WHICH WERE DISCOVERED JUST 100 YEARS AGO by Dr. David Livingstone, missionary and explorer. At the Victoria Falls, the Zambesi river is more than a mile wide and drops 420 feet into a vast fissure of its own making, a mile long and only 50 yards to 80 yards across. The roar oi the waters as they tumble can be heard for miles. Lord Curzon, in “Tales of Travel,” wrote of Victoria Falls: “No waterfall in the world can show any spectacle—though it i: sound as well as sight—to compare with this.” Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27824, 24 November 1955, Page 11
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