THE EIO MAGDALENA. 



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there is a discharge of 180,000 cubic feet per second, the river has a depth of no 

 less than 100 feet at these narrows. 



Beyond the Nare gorge the character of the river is completely changed. It 



Fig. 56. — Tequendama Falls; View taken at the Fiest Teeeace. 



broadens out and ramifies round wooded islands, and overflows right and left 

 into the riverine lagoons, which represent old branches of the mainstream. With 

 every inundation the fluvial bed and lateral channels are modified ; steamers 



