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AMERICAN RIVERS. 
Nor less thy world, Columbus, drinks mfr 
The lavish nioistiirc of the melling ycut* 
me lavisii moisuire oi uie ojcKing 
Wide o'er his isles, the branching 
Rolls a brown dehigc ; and the native ' 
To dwell aloft on life-sntficing trees, 
At onoe his dome, his robe, his 
Swell'd hy a thousand streams, inipctuo“* 
Kroin all the roaring Andes, huge descen 
The mighty Orellana. Scarce the 
Dares stretch her wing o’er the „pt 
Of rushing water j scaroe she dares gc, a* 
The sea-like Clata — to whose dread exp J 
Continuous depth, and wondrous 
Our floods arc rills. W’ilh unabated to |,, 
In silent dignity they sweep along, -pg » 
And traverse realms unknown, and bWo 
And fruitful deserts, worlds of solitude, 
Where the sun shines, and seasons teeW 
Unseen and nnenjoy’d. 
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■ RIVER OF THE AMAZONS ^ 
This, prince of rivers, as it is emphatically 
is likewise called the Maranon, and was nrs 
Francisco Orellana, shortly after the discovcv^g P i 
which acaiunt it has occasionally jyefh jify 
Orellana. As it is the largest of all kriown 
its source among the Andes mountains, ^ P • 
exception of a portion of the great Himalaya 
mountains, recently discovered, have the ^ 
It forms the nortliern boundary of Brazih 
at an inconsiderable distance from the ,plvP piy 
flow'ing in an eastern course more than 
leagues, in which ’ 
progress it receives uP^ 
considerable rivers. In _some parts it diyt 
branches, encompassing a multitude ot L-psP' J 
itself into the Atlantic 
length discharges wacn mw. .uvi - gp.- . 
under the equatorial line, by a channel 
fifty miles in breadth. 
As, among the great number of roots 
ment is conveyed to a stately tree, it is di ^ P 
length of some, and the magnitude of otbei^t 
