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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15180, 18 December 1909, Page 12

The Amazon is. although not tin largest or longest river, the most wen, dorful river in the world, with a moutl 150 mile"! in width, and with a force oi that repels, or at least overlays, the ocean to a distance of more thai fitly leagues. Yet, in spite of the.weight of the river, the tide makes its influence felt for 500 miles from the coast, while the easterly trade winds, and, what is more than all, tho Tiind on the river—apparently a continuation of that from the sea—blows almost invjuri ablv upwards, so as to he ready to h«i the vessel against the adverse ourrenta compensating provision «f vntur* e| hibited nowlwsa oka*