95 
of Northern New Jersey. 
EPS O 
fe, 
The divide creeps while the two opposing subsequent branches 
t leaps when the successful subsequent branch 
I 
5) 
are in contest 
reaches the channel of the conquered stream. The first stream 
captured in this way must necessarily be the nearest to the large 
stream. The diversion of the considerable volume of headwaters, 
H, to the channel of the small subsequent branch, G, causes it to 
Fig. 4, 
Rie. 5. 
in- 
the 
creased load of sediment thus given to G will be in great part 
lversion 
deepen its channel rapidly; the same effect is perceptible in H 
dropped in a fan-delta where it enters the flat valley of the 
for a distance above its point of capture and d 
master stream, A, (fig. 6). 
trength by conquest, other captures are made, faster 
for a time, but with decreasing slowness as the head of the divert- 
ining s 
Ga 
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