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Comparative Lengths of Rivers, in Black & White (1875)

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There have been a number of posts on this blog concerning 19th century comparative tables of river lengths, mountain heights, lake sizes, and so on. The example below is an odd one, found deep in Jean Pierre Ranbosson's Astronomy, published in London in 1875,--a funny little chart on the comparative lengths of rivers, very unusual in that it is printed white-on-black.

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