THE FATHER OF RIVERS.
The Amazon, which flows through Brazil from west to east, is the mightiest river in the world. It rises in the ATtrTes, and its course Ito the Atlantic is over 4000 miles. It has more than IJOO tributaries, the chief bang the Madeira, which is 1800 miles long, and the Rio Negro, 1350 miles long. Tho extent of the waters of this majestic river is Stive largest in the world, over 30.000 miles of its surface being of a navigable nature. It drains nearly 3,000,000 square miles of (territory. There are something like 1200 different kinds of birds which are exclusive to the valleys of this wonderful river, and thousands of varieties of animal life which are unknown in any other part; of the world. The soil of the basin of the) Amazon is eo rich that for every bushel of maize planted it is estimated that eight hundred can bo harvested.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12070, 27 July 1917, Page 4
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156THE FATHER OF RIVERS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12070, 27 July 1917, Page 4
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