Book/Printed Material Rivers and their mysteries,
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Image 1 of Rivers and their mysteries, HH ra Hi 81 a WW to? hi ^HU nWBBi- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 5 of Rivers and their mysteries, RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 8 of Rivers and their mysteries, agwe Photo by Underwood Underwood RIVER LIFE IN THE FAR EAST A scene on a canal near Bangkok in Siam.- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 9 of Rivers and their mysteries, RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES BY A. HYATT VERRILL ii Author of The Ocean and its Mysteries* Islands and Their Mysteries ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 1922- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 10 of Rivers and their mysteries, Copyright, 1922, by DUFFIELD AND COMPANY •0 Printed in the United States of America MAR -3 1922 v g)CI.A654821 t -wD 1/- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 11 of Rivers and their mysteries, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Introduction ix I. The Romance of Rivers i Rivers in mythology and story. Rivers of history. How man first used rivers. How rivers aided mankind. Set- tlements on rivers....- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 12 of Rivers and their mysteries, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE V. How Rivers Serve Man 80 How man has altered rivers. Rivers as highways. River boats. How man has harnessed rivers. The first mills. Dams. Effect of dams on...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 13 of Rivers and their mysteries, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE IX. A Journey Up a Tropical River 156 Approaching the river from the sea. The river s mouth. Low shores. Islands in the river s mouth. Starting up the...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 14 of Rivers and their mysteries,- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 15 of Rivers and their mysteries, ILLUSTRATIONS River Life in the Far East Frontispiece A scene on a canal near Bangkok in Siam. FACING PAGE A Modern Power Dam 86 The Elephant Butte Dam on the upper Rio...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 16 of Rivers and their mysteries, ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE A Gorge Cut Through the Hills by a Tropical River 160 The valley of the Kaieteur River in British Guiana. This photograph was taken from below the Falls shown...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 17 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION RlVERS are of interest to nearly everyone. They are fascinating, beautiful, majestic and mysterious features of the landscape and peo- ple in all walks of life, under all sorts of con-...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 18 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION skim swiftly over its icy covering on flashing skates or flying ice-boat. Even those poor un- fortunate mortals who have no imagination and no romance in their makeup, who can see...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 19 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION little about rivers. They may have learned something about them in their geographies at school. They may know the rivers or the portions of the rivers about their homes or in...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 20 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION they form deltas and why; how they influence the ocean s shores and how the oceans influence them; the changes made in rivers by man and by other causes and why...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 21 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION the ocean, the oceans upon rivers, the land upon both and both upon the land, while all have a bearing upon and a direct relation to climate, fauna and flora, winds...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 22 of Rivers and their mysteries, INTRODUCTION plored and traced the headwaters of many hitherto unknown, has always found rivers ro- mantic and fascinating and he believes that many people will welcome a book of the scope of...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 23 of Rivers and their mysteries, RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 24 of Rivers and their mysteries,- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 25 of Rivers and their mysteries, RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES Chapter I THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS JUST as the vast ocean awes one with its majesty and resistless power; just as some un- trod isle, rising upon the...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 26 of Rivers and their mysteries, 2 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES flotsam and jetsam, branches of trees, frag- ments of fences or of buildings, perchance a boat or raft, the toll of the river brought from no one...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 27 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 3 stream and track the river to its very source? Who has not felt a thrill as, at the river s mouth, he has thought of the long,...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 28 of Rivers and their mysteries, 4 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES crops and kept the lands along its banks green and fresh when all else was dry and parched. At times, to be sure, it rose in wrath...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 29 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 5 tion, much of man s success, much of prosper- ity has been due entirely to rivers. What would London be without the Thames; Paris without the Seine;...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 30 of Rivers and their mysteries, 6 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES rivers. And there are many reasons for this. Along the streams, game is always more abundant and more easily secured. Within the waters there is always a...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 31 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 7 ing, rolling log to a raft was an easy step. By accident, perhaps, or possibly by a glimmer of reason, the primitive navigator found that a log...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 32 of Rivers and their mysteries, 8 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES that in his rude craft and moving silently, he could more readily approach and kill the game that came to the waterside to drink or bathe while,...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 33 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 9 merce. And just as primitive man in his bark or skin or dugout boat developed his crude commerce on his jungle-bordered river, so civilized man followed in...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 34 of Rivers and their mysteries, io RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES terior homes and lived beside the rivers, while other places, too important or prosperous to be moved or abandoned, brought the rivers to their doors by constructing...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 35 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS n ing a country and, after the coast, the first towns and villages always sprang up along the rivers 7 banks. From them, in time, roads and highways...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 36 of Rivers and their mysteries, 12 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES find that this is so. It makes little difference whether the country is old or new, whether it is an agricultural, a mining, a commercial or a...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 37 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 13 tants to find places to live along the river banks. Even in little England, with its proportion- ately huge seacoast, its many splendid har- bours, its tremendous...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 38 of Rivers and their mysteries, i 4 RIVERS AND THEIR MYSTERIES towns that made our country what it is are on rivers. Bangor, Concord, Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Providence, Hartford, and a score of others might be mentioned...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 39 of Rivers and their mysteries, THE ROMANCE OF RIVERS 15 country appears almost a blank except for the rivers and their immediate vicinity for in ex- ploration and discovery rivers play a most important part and are...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
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Image 40 of Rivers and their mysteries, Chapter II HOW RIVERS ARE FORMED We commonly speak of rivers rising and of the sources of rivers, but strictly speak- ing, rivers do not rise in any one particular spot and...- Contributor: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
- Date: 1922