Excerpt from The Sea-Side Lesson Book: Designed to Convey to the Youthful Mind a Knowledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea CoastThat is the source of a river where it takes its rise, the portion of country drained by it is called its basin, because it is usually of a hollow shape. Small water-courses we term brooks, streams, and rivulets, and several of these united form a river, of which, again, there may be many which run into one channel, and make what is termed the principal river, whose true source it is often difficult to deter mine, on account of these numerous tributaries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.