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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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back but there would be no means of getting up except by the most steep & uncertain climbing, these banks are from 2 or 300 to 1500 or some say nearly 2000 ft high one cape goes straight up perpendicularly while a vessel of any draught of water might sail touching its base the effect of this rock is magnificent & it seems as though a mountain had been cleft in two & half of it thrown into the water into fathomless depths. The water of the Saguenay is inky looking & when stirred up by the paddles it looks yellow I tasted some of it & it was horribly salt there are most curious currents & eddies on its surface but the darkness of its colour is
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back but there would be no means of getting up except by the most steep & uncertain climbing, these banks are from 2 or 300 to 1500 or some say nearly 2000 ft high one cape goes straight up perpendicularly while a vessel of any draught of water might sail touching its base the effect of this rock is magnificent & it seems as though a mountain had been cleft in two & half of it thrown into the water into fathomless depths. The water of the Saguenay is inky looking & when stirred up by the paddles it looks yellow I tasted some of it & it was horribly salt there are most curious currents & eddies on its surface but the darkness of its colour is
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