GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ARCHITECTURE 



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NAMK OF RIVEB 



Ganges 



Hoang-Ho 



Indus 



Irrawadi 2,532 



Kongo 3,000 



I,a Plata 2,500 



Lena, 2,550 



Loire 598 



Mackenzie 2.400 



Martaban 2.152 



Missouri and Mississippi, 4,200 



Murray 3,000 



Nelson 1.800 



Niger 3.500 



Nile 3.500 



2.500 



Ohio and Allegheny 1,265 



1,152 



1,500 



Parana 2.211 



Red River 1.200 



Rhine 960 



550 



Rio Bravo del Norte 1,800 



Rio de la Plata 1.800 



Rio Grande 1.800 



Rio Madeira 2,300 



ro 1.650 



San Francisco 1,680 



LENGTH given to the whole of the extensive system of 

 i'foo I mounta ^P s 1 w h>ch covers a great portion of the 



Saskatchewan. 



Seine 



St. Lawrence. 

 Thames, . . 



Tral 



Vistula, . . . 

 Volga. . . . 

 Yang-tse, . . 

 Yenesei, 

 Yukon, . . . 

 Zambezi, . . 



1,918 

 497 

 2.000 

 250 

 1,099 

 598 

 2.000 

 3.300 

 3.322 

 2.000 



Riviera (re-ve-fl'rd), an Italian term for 

 coast-land flanked by mountains, especially ap- 

 plied to th- -trip of hind lying around the Gulf 



'a from Nice to Leghorn, which is divided 

 by Genoa into the Western and Eastern Riviera, 

 the former the more popular as a health resort; 

 but the whole coast enjoys an exceptionally 

 mild climate, and is replete with beautiful 

 scenery. 



K<M-h ester, a city and county-seat of Mon- 

 roe County, N. Y. ; on the Genesee River, 229 



vest of Albany. In the center of the city 

 an the Upper Falls of the Genesee, a perpen- 

 dicular cataract of ninety-six feet. Rochester 

 is built on a plateau on both sides of the river, 

 263 feet above Lake Ontario. The city is the 

 trade center of a large and rich agricultural 

 In the Genesee River there are three 

 . ninety-six, twenty-six, and eighty-three 

 feet respectively, giving abundant water-power 

 for manufacturing. There are over 1,900 in- 

 dustrial establishments, employing upward of 

 40,000 persons, with a combined capital of M limit 

 $50,00" :ni cut put of about $70,000,- 



I he most important of these are flour 



india-rubber goods, photographic materi- 

 <-s, shoes, etc. In the suburbs is an 



i ve nursery, including two great pla 

 the packing and shipment of garden and farm 



r >'ono western half of North America, but more proper- 

 ly applied to the eastern border of this mountain 

 region, commencing in New Mexico in about 

 32 s 30* north latitude, and extending throughout 

 the continent to the Polar Sea; terminating 

 west of the Mackenzie River, in latitude G9 6 

 north longitude 135 west. The Rocky Moun- 

 tains in the United States are divided into two 

 parts in Southern Wyoming by a tract of elevat- 

 ed plateaus. The chief group of the southern 

 half are the Front or Colorado Range, which in 

 Wyoming has a. mean elevation of 9,000 feet 

 (at Evan s Pass, where it is crossed by the Union 

 Pacific Railway, 8,269 feet). In Colorado it 

 increases to a mean height of 13,000 feet, its 

 highest points being Gray's Peak (14,341 feet), 

 Long's Peak (14,271 feet), and Pike's Peak 

 (14,147 feet). The Sawatch Range south of the 

 Arkansas River, has its highest peak in Mount 

 Harvard (14,375 feet), with passes at an eleva- 

 tion of from 12,000 to 13,000 feet. "Parks" of 

 Colorado are high mountain valleys, known as 

 North, Middle, South, and San Luis parks, with 

 an elevation of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet, sur- 

 rounded by ranges 3,000 to 4,000 feet higher. 

 The west border of the San Luis Park is formed 

 by the San Juan Range with at least a dozen 

 peaks over 14,000 feet, and between one and 

 two hundred above 13,000 feet. On the north- 

 eastern side this park is bounded by the Sangre 

 de Cristo Range, in which is Blanca Peak ( 11 .If, \ 

 feet). The Uintah Range, directly west of 

 North Park, has several points above 13,000 

 feet; and the Wahsatch Raime. which forms the 

 western limit of the southern division of the 

 Rocky Mountains, rises to a height of 12.000 feet 

 just east of Salt Lake City. The northern 

 division of the Rocky Mountains, with the ex- 

 ception of the Wind River Range and the Yellow- 

 stone region, is lower and has less imp- 

 scenery than the southern. In Idaho ami Mon- 

 tana the groups are more irregular in outline 

 than in the south, and the division into rank's 

 more uncertain. Of these the Hitter Hoot Moun- 

 tains in part of their course form the divide 

 Let \\een the Missouri and the Columbia. There 

 two ranges reach altitudes of upwards of 9,000 

 feet, and are crossed by a number of passes at 

 elevations of from 5,500 to <> The 



Northern Pacific Raihvav crosses at Mullan's 

 Pass (5,548 feet) through a. tunnel 3.S. 

 long. The-Crazy Mo- rth of the Yellow 



Stone, reach a height of 1 1 .(MM) feet : other group* 

 are the Big Horn Mountains ;uid the Black Hills. 

 whose highest point i* Mount Harvey (9,700 

 feet). In Canada the highest known peaks are 

 Mount Brown i Ki.nno feet) and Mount 1 ; 



. lyiim about 53 north latitude; 



the general altitude of this part of the range 



varying from 1(),(KK) to 14,000 feet. 

 leading 



, . The pass 



betu Mount Brown and 



ailed the Athabasca Portage, has a 



Rochester is the seat of the I'm- 

 ochester, and the ; Thenlnuical 



nary. The most remarkable .structure in Ho,. 



y and county i- the a-meduct \\hi<-h car- height of 7..;>ii feet. The Kock Mountains con- 



. Erie Canal across the Genesee River, tain some of the finest scenery in the world, and 



f cut stone, 848 feet long, with a channel are specially rich in deposits of gold, silver, iron, 



forty-five feet wide, and is supported by nine coprcr, etc., which are worked extensively. 



Population, l.vj.022. 1C nine* the capital of Italy, as formerly of 



Rocky Mountains, a name indefinitely the Roman Empire, republic, and kingdom, and 



