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A. 9th Steamed up to Ottowa. there was a break in one place of the navigation for 12 miles owing to the river not being deep enough. This is a very beautiful river but we could see little of it owing to the smoke which was so dense that the sun appeared through it like in a London fog The banks are wild & uncultivated except round the villages they are lined with cedars (what we call arbor vitae) the stems of which are used for hop poles. The waters of the Ottowa are dark & yellow, very much like those of the Saguenay & The Lawrence & Ottowa waters are to be distinguished by their colours for many miles after the Ottowa joins the St. Lawrence.
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A. 9th Steamed up to Ottowa. there was a break in one place of the navigation for 12 miles owing to the river not being deep enough. This is a very beautiful river but we could see little of it owing to the smoke which was so dense that the sun appeared through it like in a London fog The banks are wild & uncultivated except round the villages they are lined with cedars (what we call arbor vitae) the stems of which are used for hop poles. The waters of the Ottowa are dark & yellow, very much like those of the Saguenay & The Lawrence & Ottowa waters are to be distinguished by their colours for many miles after the Ottowa joins the St. Lawrence.
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