“FATHER OF WATERS"
The river Mississippi is known as the “Lathe" of Waters.” Its name is a corrupted form of the original Indian name. “Miche Sepe,” meaning “Great River.” or “Groat Father of Waters.” Well does it deserve the title with its length of 3716 miles, and draining, as it does, a territory considerably larger than Central Europe. The Mississippi discharges annually into tlx* Gulf of Mexico 21.600 000.000 billions cubic feet of water, with a mean discharge of 57.000 cubic feet per second, and it carries with it in suspen sion some 22.000.000 cubic yards of sediment annually, while its navigable branches number 1500.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19310310.2.14.2
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 58, 10 March 1931, Page 4
Word Count
105“FATHER OF WATERS" Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 58, 10 March 1931, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in