Yup. As a kid I used the Mississippi as the default mental model (all other rivers different by degree of measure, not flow pattern generally as drainage was eventually towards the south).
But, of those others (excepting the Rhine):
The Nile
The Mackenzie
The Ob
Only one figures prominently in history.
So, one is surf-skimming along trying to retain what’s maybe important about Antony vs Augustus re Cleopatra and troop movements cease to fit the puzzle, ha!
Were I Dan in that moment, the “answer” were to crack another beer and become as Falstaff, (declare), “a New river has always a New compass. Hoist the masts, sailors, and set the sheets!!”
(Are there among these Marines some truly but swabbies at heart? Heavily implied in the above).
“What say ye, Warden? What doth their countenance reveal? Are we amongst mast-monkeys, or must we employ them as tow-mules this armada to move?”
(Dilemma created with no way out; leadership re-established).
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