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IT has often occurred to me that a convenient classification of rivers might be obtained by arranging them according to their “water-discharge.” Such a classification would not only indicate the relative position of one river to another in a descending scale, but would enable a rough estimate to be borne in the memory of the amount of water any particular river may discharge.
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GUPPY, H. On the Classification of Rivers. Nature 22, 606 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022606c0
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