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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BROTHER TO THE SEA You see Lake Superior best, as an incident in crossing the continent, when travelling over the Canadian transcontinental railroad, and of all the various scenic wonders that the different crosscontinental railroads advertise, not one seems to me more grand or more grandly beautiful than this. For more than half a day the cars glide along the shore, whose irregularities provide a wide diversity of scenery, in woods, among rocks, and every few minutes close beside the closed ends of the great bays which spread out into an ocean-like endlessness of water. Each time that I have made the journey it has been my good-fortune to see the lake clear, smooth, and brilliant, as if it were a vast mirror that Dame Nature might have been holding up to herself. And the lake, like a huge bowl of quicksilver, has each time caught and held the brilliant scene around it?the cloud-littered shining skies, the quiet stately forests, and the towering rocks, which rise in all the forms of turrets, pinnacles, ramparts, castellated heaps, and frowning walls, now green, now red, now purple, and anon dull brown or ashen. Lake Superior is almost everywhere noble, grand, impressive, majestic. Its surroundings are, for the most part, far more suggestive of what one fancies the ocean should be than are those of the oceans themselves. Old Crowfoot, with his marvellous faculty for aptly nick chapter{{Section 4 GRAND ARCH, PICTCRED ROCKS, LAKE SUPERIOR naming whatever new tiling he saw, was never happier than when he tried to express in a phrase the impression Superior made upon his mind. The Canadian officials were bringing him on a sight-seeing tour to Montreal from the Blackfoot territory on the plains, where he ruled the wildest Indians of Canada; and when he saw the greate...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217524858 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217524850 |
| Weight | 0.83 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 252 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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