The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 93National Geographic Society, 1948 - Geography |
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Page 325
... mile ! Throughout the Yangtze plain the popula- tion averages 900 persons per square mile , three - fourths of them farmers . Far back in the interior , 1,500 river miles from the sea , and with the Yangtze as almost its sole means of ...
... mile ! Throughout the Yangtze plain the popula- tion averages 900 persons per square mile , three - fourths of them farmers . Far back in the interior , 1,500 river miles from the sea , and with the Yangtze as almost its sole means of ...
Page 555
... miles below the confluence , the Missouri empties its chocolate current , and thereafter the Father of Waters is a muddy yellow . Here clashing currents have dumped silt , forming five wooded islands , one partly cleared for farming ...
... miles below the confluence , the Missouri empties its chocolate current , and thereafter the Father of Waters is a muddy yellow . Here clashing currents have dumped silt , forming five wooded islands , one partly cleared for farming ...
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... miles . This artificial short cut , Glasscock Cutoff , is about four miles long and rather narrow . Next morning we re - entered the main river about 9 o'clock and started down the cutoff . It was raining lightly and the visibility was ...
... miles . This artificial short cut , Glasscock Cutoff , is about four miles long and rather narrow . Next morning we re - entered the main river about 9 o'clock and started down the cutoff . It was raining lightly and the visibility was ...
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