St Nicholas [serial] . I wonder if the Ft. Nicholas readers re-alize what a story of the vast extent of ourcountry is told by its rivers ? Every variety of river in the world seems tohave a cousin in our collection. What othercountry on the face of the globe affords suchan assortment of streams for fishing and boat-ing and swimming and skating — besides hav-ing any number of streams on which you cando none of these things ? One can hardly im-agine rivers like that; but we have them, plentyof them, as you shall see. As for fishing, the American boy may casthis flies for salmon in the Arctic cir
St Nicholas [serial] . I wonder if the Ft. Nicholas readers re-alize what a story of the vast extent of ourcountry is told by its rivers ? Every variety of river in the world seems tohave a cousin in our collection. What othercountry on the face of the globe affords suchan assortment of streams for fishing and boat-ing and swimming and skating — besides hav-ing any number of streams on which you cando none of these things ? One can hardly im-agine rivers like that; but we have them, plentyof them, as you shall see. As for fishing, the American boy may casthis flies for salmon in the Arctic circle, or anglefor sharks under a tropical sun in Florida,without leaving the domain of the Americanflag. But the fishing-rivers are not the mostcurious, nor the most instructive as to diversityof climate, soil, and that sort of thing — physi-cal geography, the teacher calls it. For instance, if you want to get a good ideaof what tropical heat and moisture will do for acountry, slip your canoe from a Florida steameri
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