Note 40 — ON STEPPES AND DESERTS.
Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn translation
p. 17.—“A vast inland sea.”
Nowhere are these inundations on a larger scale than in the net-work of streams formed by the Apure, the Arachuna, the Payara, the Arauca, and the Cabuliare. Large vessels sail across the country over the Steppe for 40 or 50 miles.