Madeira River (i.e. river of the wood), formed by the junction of the Mamoré and Beni on the borders of Bolivia and Brazil, flows 900 m. NE., and joins the Amazon, as an affluent its longest and largest, and forms a magnificent navigable waterway.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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