Every day the river Thames scoops out of its banks 1500 tons of matter, or 500,000 tons a year. All the rivers of the world are doing a similar work—the Mississippi at the rate of 360,000,000 tons a year.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 234, 2 October 1931, Page 3
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