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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
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Text Appearing After Image: Puerto Corral, the Port of Valdivia, South Chile. TRANSPORT SYSTEMS 265 ness, and it has only been within the last twenty yearsthat serious studies have been made with a view torestraining, preserving and freeing the torrential streamscharacteristic of the short, steep slope of Chile. AllChilean rivers are snow-fed, and are extraordinarilyand violently augmented when the Andean snowsmelt; the northern floods are more uncontrolled thanthose of the south, tearing down from greater heightsthrough open country where nothing but, eventually,heat and sand offer a check. Many disappear in thedesert while still far away from the sea. The southerlyrivers, flowing from lesser heights and passing throughlong forestal areas, are more constant in volume. Itis only below Lebu, in 38 degrees of south latitude,that any Chilean river becomes even nominally navi-gable, with the sole exception of a dozen miles of theRapel. Nevertheless, the longest Chilean river is in thenorth, flowing across Chiles wid
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