. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 125 Miles. ino- all the way to the Rio Negro, the region comprised between the two con- verging streams is occupied by an intricate system of lagoons, creeks, and backwaters, which shift their forms and channels with every inundation under the alternating pressure of the Solimoes and Japura waters. If the Amazons basin was at one time an inland sea, as seems probable, its former aspect is best pre- served in this half-lacustrine, half-emerged inter-fluvial district. The Jutahy, Jurua, and Purus. Between the Tea and the Japura confluences the Solimoes is joi
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 125 Miles. ino- all the way to the Rio Negro, the region comprised between the two con- verging streams is occupied by an intricate system of lagoons, creeks, and backwaters, which shift their forms and channels with every inundation under the alternating pressure of the Solimoes and Japura waters. If the Amazons basin was at one time an inland sea, as seems probable, its former aspect is best pre- served in this half-lacustrine, half-emerged inter-fluvial district. The Jutahy, Jurua, and Purus. Between the Tea and the Japura confluences the Solimoes is joined by several southern tributaries, such as the Jutahy (Hyutai) and the Jurua, which in any other region would be regarded as great rivers. In 1867 Chandless ascended the Jurua for a distance of 1,125 miles, including all the meanderings of its tortuous channel, and at the farthest point reached by him the stream was still some 30
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