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Victoria falls is gigantic beyond imagination. The river is about a mile wide at the falls. The drop of the falls is 354 feet, making it the world's largest sheet of falling water. The flow rate varies greatly, 10 times more water at the peak of the rainy season than at the minimum of the dry season. I was there well into the dry season at a period approaching the low flow rate. The mean flow rate is about half that of Niagara Falls (and less than 9 other waterfalls), but Victoria Falls is far wider and higher than Niagara. And the highest recorded flow rate of Victoria Falls is more than twice that of Niagara.

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These are a few photos I took in Harare. Harare is a large modern city, with a 1990 population of about one million and is now close to two million. On-line sources claim that conditions in the city, along with much of Zimbabwe, have declined markedly since I visited, due to Zimbabwe’s economic difficulties.