Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 313
, those rivers of the great plains, like thePlatte and the Kansas and the Arkansas, areso wasteful of their supply in the spring that byJuly they are gasping for a shower. So, part of the year they revel in luxury, and during therest they go shabby — like shiftless people. But the irrigation… … the sand. Like a vast sponge, the sand holdsthe water, yet it flows continually, just as if itwere in plain sight, but more slowly of course.The volume may be estimated by the depth andbreadth of the sand. One pint of it will holdthree quarters of a pint of water. This is calledthe underground How,…
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