The chief commerce is in silk, which is carried on along the River and its numerous affluents and canals. |
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All the large affluents of the Amazonas, which drain the great plains, are navigable to a considerable extent. |
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It is a broad valley with a marked northern edge, cut, it is true, by wide affluents. |
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In order to as much as possible approach the cultures for which an impact is apprehended, the programmes of measurement especially treated the affluents of the principal rivers. |
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The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics. |
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