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Boating trips on New England rivers (1884)

Fellows, Henry Parker · Boston, Cupples, Upham and company · leaf 54

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t in a lock and feel the Avater sinking beneathyou, induces a slight sense of horror, to say the least.There is no charge for locking. The current is very swift below Lawrence, but the THE SUDBUBT, CONCOBD, AXD MEBBIMAC. 51 banks are not nearly so pretty as above. About fourmiles below Lawrence is… … We turned the boat about and went through sternforemost, enjoying that most delightful of sensations, themotion of rushing water. The river makes a sharp bendbelow the fall, and along the lower side of the bend isanother rapid. The swift water carried us along near theshore past the steamer Kittie…

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