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Africa Amazon Amur ancient Aral Sea Arctic Asia basin Brahmaputra branch called canals canoes canyon Caspian channel China Chinese Congo continent cubic feet dams Danube delta depth desert drainage area drainage basin drains eight empire empty Euphrates farther feet a second feet high flood flows foaming forests Ganges glaciers gorges Gulf headwaters Herodotus hundred feet hundred miles Hwang Hwang Ho inches Indians Indus Irrawaddy irrigation islands Jaxartes known Lake land Lawrence Lena length Mackenzie Mekong miles long miles wide million Mississippi mountain mouth natives navigation nearly Niger Nile North America northern ocean once Orinoco outlet Oxus Paraná rainfall region Rhine river rock Russian sailed Salween sand Saskatchewan shallow shore silt Slave Lake southern square miles steamers Strabo stream stretches terrain thousand feet thousand miles Tibet trees tributaries upper valley vast Volga volume waterfalls waterways width winds Yangtze Yangtze Kiang Yenisei Yukon Zambezi