A Popular History of the Discovery of America From Columbus to Franklin
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It is split up into a number of seething veins of water, which for many miles wildly toss about, and in masses of white foam wind their way through a labyrinth of dark-coloured rocks. In the midst of this uproar, the Ottawa, the largest tributary of the St. Lawrence, joins its waters to the latter, and in both rivers there is now a continuation of rapids, whirl- pools, waterfalls, and cataracts extending upwards for many hundred English miles. From this point there is no other water transport p...ossible, except in the peculiar canoes of the country, made of the bark of birch-trees, which, owing to their elasticity, float amidst the rocks as safely as a fish, whilst their lightness renders them easy to be carried where cataracts occur.
Digitized by VjOOQIC MONT ROYAL. 73 In the harbour of Montreal, which was subsequently built at this spot, long could the singular spectacle be seen, that goods brought in these little canoes were shipped immediately on board sea-going vessels ; whilst on our German rivers from the hollow trunks of trees used as boats by our mountaineers, down to the three- masters in our seaports, there is a long catalogue of other intermediate vessels used for the transport of goods.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is split up into a number of seething veins of water, which for many miles wildly toss about, and in masses of white foam wind their way through a labyrinth of dark-coloured rocks. In the midst of this uproar, the Ottawa, the largest tributary of the St. Lawrence, joins its waters to the latter, and in both rivers there is now a continuation of rapids, whirl- pools, waterfalls, and cataracts extending upwards for many hundred English miles. From this point there is no other water transport p...ossible, except in the peculiar canoes of the country, made of the bark of birch-trees, which, owing to their elasticity, float amidst the rocks as safely as a fish, whilst their lightness renders them easy to be carried where cataracts occur.
Digitized by VjOOQIC MONT ROYAL. 73 In the harbour of Montreal, which was subsequently built at this spot, long could the singular spectacle be seen, that goods brought in these little canoes were shipped immediately on board sea-going vessels ; whilst on our German rivers from the hollow trunks of trees used as boats by our mountaineers, down to the three- masters in our seaports, there is a long catalogue of other intermediate vessels used for the transport of goods.
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