A NOTE ABOUT WATER.
Where does all the water in the sea come from ? is a question that many a small boy has asked his father, and which many a father has found himself utterly unable to answer. Some idea of where it comes from may be gathered from a glance at the following table of the hourly quantity of water discharged into the sea annually by some of the bestknown livers of the world. It was compiled by an expert, and may be accepted as accurate : Million cubic Million cubic Kiver. feet per hour. River. feet per hour. Amazon 3,700 Nile . 560 3,100 Rhine 230 Mississippi 2,070 Kibe 100 Volga 1,120 Seine ’’ 80 Danube .. .. 960 Thames 40 Ganges .700 ' This, of course, throws the question back a step. The question becomes, where does the water in the rivers come from? When that is answered by the statement that it comes from the hills, we have gone about as far as we can go. Water is an element, aud what its original souice may be, no man knows.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XIII, 31 March 1894, Page 294
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178A NOTE ABOUT WATER. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XIII, 31 March 1894, Page 294
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