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| | River Customs |
 | | All rivers, small or large, agree in one character, they like to lean a little on one side: they cannot bear to have their channels deepest in the middle, but will always, if they can, have one bank to sun themselves upon, and another to get cool under. |
 | | Ruskin captures the essence of a river, left to its own devices it creates meanders, pools, waterfalls, ox bows, backwaters, cliffs, islands, swallow holes, caves: it never runs straight, it never does other than taking the easiest way downhill. |
 | | In limestone country surprises confound the expected order of things: the River Manifold in Staffordshire suddenly disappears into its own bed only to emerge after times of persistent and heavy rainfall; in Yorkshire the great dry waterfall at Malham Cove has a tiny stream, disputed origin of the river Aire, emerging at its foot. |
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