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251. Native boat, Kongo River
Native boat, Kongo River
Description
The Kongo, while not so long as the Nile, is greater in volume than any other river in Africa, is greater in volume than the Mississippi, and is second only to the Amazon. It drains a basin as large as half of the United States proper. The river has many tributaries, and its navigable water ways, if stretched out in one line, would reach about halfway around the globe. From its mouth at Matadi, about one hundred miles inland, the Kongo is more like a long lake than a river. It is five or six miles wide, and in many places three hundred feet deep. From Matadi to Stanley Pool, about two hundred miles, there is a series of cataracts; but above that to Stanley Falles are more than one thousand miles of open river, upon which steamboats can travel as well as upon the Mississippi or the lower parts of the Hudson. On the south the head waters of its tributaries are not far from the watershed of the Zambezi; on the north the headwaters come very close to those of Lake ALbert, Lake Victoria and the other headwaters of the Nile. The Kongo River is the only road by which the products of this vast region can get out to the ocean; and some large European trading companies have established factories and warehouses upon its banks. The most valuable product which the Kongo now gives to the world is rubber, after which come palm nuts and palm oil and ivory in the shapre of elephant tusks. Other exports are peanuts and coffee and copal, a gum that is used to make varnish. Tobacco is grown in all the native villages, and it may become an important article of trade.
252. Hanging Valleys
Hanging Valleys
Description
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."
253. Upper Murray River, Corryong
Upper Murray River, Corryong
Description
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."
254. Gideon's Fountain, Near Jezreel
Gideon's Fountain, Near Jezreel
Description
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."
255. Main river with irrigation canal leading from it
Main river with irrigation canal leading from it
256. Truss bridge on river, circa 1910
Truss bridge on river, circa 1910
257. Truss bridge on river, circa 1910
Truss bridge on river, circa 1910
258. Waterfall over a river, circa 1910
Waterfall over a river, circa 1910
259. Steamboats on river, circa 1910
Steamboats on river, circa 1910
260. Steamboats on river, circa 1910
Steamboats on river, circa 1910
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