Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The construction of a set of locks and weirs at intervals along the Murray enable traffic to extend throughout the year as far as Echuca, which is nearly to the border of N.S.W in Victoria."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Jordan rises west of Mt. Hermon and after spreading out into Lake Mermon and the sea of Galilee, discharges its waters into the Dead Sea, 1292 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. From Lake Mermon to the Dead Sea, which has no outlet and is a body of salt water, the course of the Jordon is below sea level. The Valley of the Jordon the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee occupy a portion of the long narrow depression in the surface of the earth. At the east and west margins of the depression there are great fissures of breaks in the rocks and the land between these fissures has fallen or been drawn in toward the center of the earth. The Jordon varies in width from 30 to 70 yards, but in January and February it over flows its banks and is from a half-mile to two miles wide. The soil in the valley is very rich except near the Dead Sea. In Mid-winter the landscape is green with grass and bright with flowers, but in summer it has the general appearance of a desert."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "No point of either North or South Island over 75 miles from the ocean. While Australia is a very dry continent having but a limited rainfall, no high mountains, and consequently no large river systems; New Zealand is comparatively a moist county, requiring little or no irrigation for its crops. The Wanganut River in North Island is famed for its beauty. For the greater part of 140 miles it runs in a deep canyon, which it has cut through hardened volcanic ash to a depth of form 200 to 500 feet. The walls of the canyon are in many places almost perpendicular and everywhere they are very steep. Both sides are covered with rich green vegetation, conspicuous amongst which are tree ferns, rising in some instances to a height of fifty (50) feet, and bearing aloft surprisingly graceful umbrella-shaped fronds. In some places along the course of the river the banks are so steep that the natives are obliged to go to and from their canoes by means of ladders."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Snow River drains a wide tract of country on the eastern slopes of the Highlands, before it discharges into the Southern Ocean, after an extremely sinuous course of 250 miles. The Snowy River begins at Mount Kosciusko and is joined by many smaller rivers on its way to the sea. "
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Valleys through which glaciers pass are widened and deepened, and their walls made smoother. The deepening of a mountain valley by glacial erosion sometimes brings about a curious relation between it and its tributaries. The lower ends of the tributary valleys are much higher than the valleys which they join. Such valleys are called hanging valleys. They abound in the mountains of the western part of the United States, and in other mountains where glaciers formerly existed. The tributary may be left hanging, because the main valley is deepened by glacial erosion, while the tributary is not; or in some cases both the main and the tributary valley are deepened, but the former much more than the latter."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Murray and its tributaries drain a considerable portion of Queensland, the major part of New South Wales, and much of Victoria. The principal tributaries are the Darling, Murrumbridges, Lachlan, and Goulburn. With its two principal tributaries, the Murray is navigable for six months of the year for a considerable distance from the sea."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "At the foot of Gilboa Mountains in the fertile valley of Jezreel on the road between Jezreel and Beth Shean, this copious spring busts forth, called Gideon's Fountain because it has been located as the scene where Gideon tested the strength and faithfulness of his men and afterward won the victory over the Midianites (Judges 7-7). The cavery furnishes a delightful place of retreat from the hot sun of that valley after a hard forenoon's travel either from Jenin of Beisan. The pool is made entirely by a dam, apparently ancient, and from it the water is carried off to operate a succession of mills down the valley."
