Owing to the enormous quantity of water pouring out of the mouths of the Amazon River, fresh water can be dipped from the Atlantic Ocean for a distance of 50 miles off the coast of Brazil. Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Metcalfe recently attained her 100th vear. She is a daughter of the late Dr. Metcalfe, of Tydd St. Mary, Lincolnshire, and she has a sister still living in rhe Fens who is 97.:
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 99, 25 January 1928, Page 15
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