TWO GREAT RIVERS.
CONNECTION BY CANAL. GREAT ENGINEERING PLAN. DANUBE AND THE MINE. A great engineering project is quietly going in spite of all the trouble in Europe, Jinking up two of Europe's greatest rivers. How many people realise that tho Rhine flowing into the North Sea, and the Danube flowing into tho Black Sea, are connected through their tributaries by a canal over a hundred miles long? Unfortunately the canal is only seven feet deep, so that it is not much use for through traffic. Three years ago there was begun tho great enterprise of widening aid deepening this canal, and the Rhine and Danube tributaries it feeds, so that Ihey shall give passage to vessels up to 1500 tons. It is hoped to complete it in another eight years at a total cost of £,55,000,000. The wholo journey from the mouth of the Rhine to tho mouth of the Danube, 2000 miles, will lie through much of the most beautiful, impressive, and romantic scenery in Europe. The trip should be a popular ono for tourists with plenty of time and not too much energy. It is interesting to remember that these canals do not make the first connection between the waters of the two great rivers. There is a natural connection much more direct. Tho Danube itself flows quite near Lake Constance, through which flows tho Rhine, and a considerable quantity of Danube water escapes through fissures underground into the Ach, a Rhine tributary. So for a water atom starting from the source of the Danube, it is a question whether it reaches the Black Sea or tho North Sea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 16 (Supplement)
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