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Brewer's: Father of Waters
The Irawaddy, in Burmah, and the Mississippi, in North America. The Nile is so called by Dr. Johnson in his Rasselas. (See Father Thames.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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