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The Sea-Side Lesson Book: Designed to Convey to the Youthful Mind a Knowledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea Coast (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Adams, Henry Gardiner

 
9781334646607: The Sea-Side Lesson Book: Designed to Convey to the Youthful Mind a Knowledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea Coast (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sea-Side Lesson Book<br/><br/>That is the source of a river where it takes its rise; the portion of country drained by it is called its basin, because it is usually of a hollow shape. Small water-courses we term brooks, streams, and rivulets, and several of these united form a river, of which, again, there may be many which run into one channel, and make what is termed the principal river, whose true source it is often difficult to deter mine, on account of these numerous tributaries.

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