Show A glorious river the st lawrence is a phenomenon among avers no other nver is fed by euch such gigantic lakes no other river ri er is so independent of the elements ades pies pi es alike rain enow snow and sunshine ice lee and wind may be said to be the only things that affect its mighty flow something almost as phenomenal as the st lawrence itself is that there is so about it it might be safely affirmed that not oula per cent of the american public are au aware are of the fact that among all the great rivers of the world the st lawrence is the only absolutely hoodless one such however is the case the ube st lawrance despises ram rain and sunshine its greatest variation caused by drought or rain hardly ever exceeds a foot or lourton inches the cause of this almost everlasting sameness of volume is easily under understood sto the st lawrence is fed by the miga mightiest lit bodies of fresh water on earth immense as is the volume of water it pours into the ocean any one who has trav tra creed all the immense lakes that feed it and for the surplus waters of which it is the only channel to thelea wonders that it is not even een e en more gigantic gi than it is not one drop of the waters of the five great lakes finds its way to the ocean save through this gigantic extraordinary and wondrously beautiful n nver ner er no wonder then that it should despise the rain and defy the sunshine 7 0 russel Rus selin in natures realm |