S3S PRINCIPAL KITEHS. 
" could not discern land on eitlier side, am 
* but the sky and water, as iT we had 
« ocean. Indeed, we shoulti li^ve taken it to 
« if the freshness of its water, which was turn ^ 
“ tlie Po, had not satisfied us thatit was a ri''er- 
at Buenos Ayres, another hundred miles up 
""where it is still much narrower, it is not onr 
where it is still mucli narrower, n is _ 
- to discern the opposite coast, which IS, inrte ^ a.s . 
" and fiat, but one cannot perceive the hous^i 
'• of the steeples, in the Portuguese settleineu 
1 the other side of the livci. 
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■ It has been asserted that most of the riveiS 
Chili Lave scarcely any motion by night, i'p 
nearaiicc of the moruing sun, tliey rwuroe J 
wpidity . This would appear to proceed " ts, M 
snows, which, being melted by the powerful J' 
ihe stream, and conUnue to drive on tl^ i 
Idle sun is engaged in dissolving them. 
these wonderful masses ot water ! 
ese wonaemu . <r cniit** J-s • 
In concluding this account of the nvers ot o 
T»-_* 1 it A-.v ,.1 lAC nr 
thL'prodigious 'multitudes and varieties 
ine prooj^iuua i nVCi ^ .riP'.i 
which they abound, ought not to be P'f=^“ ti,e 
In the 'ver of llie Amazons, agreeably ^ 
of the Jesuit Acugna, they ai'e so abundant. 
any art. they may be readily taken with 
the Oroonoko,” observes another Jesm-, 
" an infinite variety of other fishes, turtles j, 
« numbers as words caimot be found to 
1'^ 
" not but that such as read my account 
" exaggeration ; - — - , 
" difficult lotount them, as to count tu- , ^ 
banks of that river. Their mulutudes ,.• 
• .1 _ .....In/Y x^r>T-ic"tiTvni Al LlH«^ .flV .1. 
but I can affirm, thtit 
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■as 
DanKs oi uu • »• of V ^ 
" by the surprising consunipUon ot uw / 
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jjiiuv 
nLions contiguous to the river, and ^ 
at a distance, flock thither at the biee b^it c 
not only find sustenance during that ’< 9 , f 
great numbers both of the turtles, 
THE MISSISSIPPI. 
Proceeding to North America, this va.’ >■ 
cntlon. It runs chiefly from , 
111 its course many large rivers, ^ 
principal attention 
Tccclvius^ iu its CO 
to tlic lUline or the Danube, 
It runs chiefly iVo'!^ 
rivers,^* 
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