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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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that one the British side is a Hudson's Bay Co. station. the rapid do not seem very great as far as I could judge by night we dawdled through the canal & then on to Waiskie Bay where the wind blowing rather strong & it being the equiox we anchored some time in the night it is now very cold and this is an old patched up concern & proves a very slow 'traveller'. The colouring on both banks of the river was very fine some of the trees being quite red & there being a kind of deep blue [mist?] hanging over them left Waiskie Bay about 4 P.M, touched at Marquette about 9 A.M. on the 23rd not far from here is a great Iron Mountain in fact all
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that one the British side is a Hudson's Bay Co. station. the rapid do not seem very great as far as I could judge by night we dawdled through the canal & then on to Waiskie Bay where the wind blowing rather strong & it being the equiox we anchored some time in the night it is now very cold and this is an old patched up concern & proves a very slow 'traveller'. The colouring on both banks of the river was very fine some of the trees being quite red & there being a kind of deep blue [mist?] hanging over them left Waiskie Bay about 4 P.M, touched at Marquette about 9 A.M. on the 23rd not far from here is a great Iron Mountain in fact all
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