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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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& still one solid pillar of fire as the sun sunk below the hills. I confess I then went down to tea when I came up again on deck we were off the Seguenay river which flows straight in at rt. ls. to the St. Lawrence with the steep rocks on both sides & its waters were tinged with gorgeous red. we stopped at Tadousac at the mouth of the river to wood. here there is a little kind of harbor a cove scooped out of the solid rock by nature about a ship long & a ship wide, this was one of the earliest settlements & indeed one can fancy would the just the sort of haven that the settlers coasting along the steep bank of the St. Lawrence
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& still one solid pillar of fire as the sun sunk below the hills. I confess I then went down to tea when I came up again on deck we were off the Seguenay river which flows straight in at rt. ls. to the St. Lawrence with the steep rocks on both sides & its waters were tinged with gorgeous red. we stopped at Tadousac at the mouth of the river to wood. here there is a little kind of harbor a cove scooped out of the solid rock by nature about a ship long & a ship wide, this was one of the earliest settlements & indeed one can fancy would the just the sort of haven that the settlers coasting along the steep bank of the St. Lawrence
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