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I HAVE been much interested in the paper on the above rivers, published in NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 486. To the extent of the writer's personal observations the calculations appear to have been careful and accurate, and as near the truth as the observavations of a single year are likely to be. A reference to Sir Charles Hartley's observations of the Danube, extending over ten years, shows that the mean maximum discharge of that river for one year exceeded the minimum by 3 to 1.
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READE, T. The Yang-tse, the Yellow River, and the Pei-ho. Nature 22, 559 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022559b0
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