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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sphere. On Thursday morning the shadowy coast of Labrador appeared.The voyage seemed now virtually ended after four days from land toland. There were three days more, but the steamer would be in calmwater, with land constantly in view. The Straits of Belle Isle, some six miles wide, were as calm as hadbeen the ocean. The Gulf of St. Lawrence — the fishing field of theworld — was like a surface of class. The sunrise and moonrise werenow magnificent; the sunsets brought scenes to view as wonderful asthe skies of Italy; gigantic mountains rose; clustering sails broke themonotonous expanse of the glassy sea, and now and then appearedan Indian canoe such as Jacques Cartier and the early explorers sawnearly three centuries ago. The wild shores of Anticosti rose and sunk. We are now in the Greater Rhine, said Mr. Beal to the boys, — the Rhine of the West. How is that? asked Charlie Leland. Is not the Hudson theAmerican Rhine ? It is the New York Rhine, said Mr. Beal, smiling. The river
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NIAGARA FALLS. THE GREATER RHINE. 31 3 St. Lawrence is, by right of analogy, the American Rhine, and so de-serves to be called. Which is the larger river? asked Charlie. The larger? Yes, the longer ? It does not seem possible that an American school-boy couldseriously ask such a question ! I am sometimes astonished, however,at the ignorance that older people of intelligence show in regard toour river of which all Americans should be proud. Ours is the Greater Rhine. The German Rhine is less than athousand miles long; our Rhine is nearly twenty-five hundred mileslong: the German Rhine can at almost any point be easily spannedwith bridges; our Rhine defies bridges, except in its narrowest boun-daries. The great inland seas of Superior,^Huron, Michigan, Ontario,and Erie require a width of miles for their pathway to the ocean.The Rhine falls cannot be compared with Niagara, nor the scatteredislands of the old river with the Lake of a Thousand Islands of thenew. Quebec is as beautiful as C

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