No. 22. 'From Xature, December 5, 1907, Vol. LXXVII. 

 Pp. 100 102.] 



THE WINDINGS OF RIVERS 1 



Ax the meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh in 

 1892 I read a paper on the subject of the winding of rivers 

 before the geographical section. It was illustrated by a large 

 number of diagrams, but, as these could not be included in 

 the report of the meeting, only the title of the papet appeared. 

 It may not be out of place to give a short account of it, as the 

 subject is now attracting some attention. 



In Fig. i the courses of three streams are shown. These 

 are distinguished by the letters A, B, C, without indication of 



thi-ir identity or of the scale on which they an drawn. If 

 anyone were to try to select the one which represents the 

 largest or the smallest of thes< he mi-ht do so < 



but he would not be surprised if he were told that h 

 guessed wnm-l\ , for it could only be a guess. The hn-th <>f 

 each tracing In n.itntv it represents in A nine 



English i B 216 miles, and in C one-and-n half n 



1 For Introduction, sec Con \i 



