. Cassier's magazine . l rivers, the last named being thesmallest, but still larger than theThames, while the Caura is severaltimes bigger and the Caroni stilllarger. These last two rivers havetheir rise in a region of dense for-ests and mountains which has neverbeen fully explored. Humboldt trav-eled by the Orinoco and discoveredthat the Casiquaire canal was away to the Rio Negro, a tributary ofthe Amazon, so that the Amazon andthe Orinoco are in free communica-tion. But he did not do much workoff the river courses. Dr. Andrenearly lost his life when attemptingto find the sources of the Caura
. Cassier's magazine . l rivers, the last named being thesmallest, but still larger than theThames, while the Caura is severaltimes bigger and the Caroni stilllarger. These last two rivers havetheir rise in a region of dense for-ests and mountains which has neverbeen fully explored. Humboldt trav-eled by the Orinoco and discoveredthat the Casiquaire canal was away to the Rio Negro, a tributary ofthe Amazon, so that the Amazon andthe Orinoco are in free communica-tion. But he did not do much workoff the river courses. Dr. Andrenearly lost his life when attemptingto find the sources of the Caura. Heleft some of his men perforce be-hind to follow the surviving canoeand sent a rescue expedition to bringthem home, but they appear to havewandered off the river and sought away through the forest, and not avestige of them has since been perished in the dark forest. But the water-power of the coun-try is not what might be anticipatedfrom the enormous flow of the rivers,for the main streams extend from the. SIGNOR GEN. LAHIDO TAVAREZ, BY RIO EL CAURAAT LA AURORA far west, unimpeded by rapids, andwater-powers are confined to theareas near the mountain sources, es-pecially of the rivers which flow northinto the Orinoco. There is plenty ofwater to be had for irrigation, andmanv house sites could be located
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