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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 376 — ome centuries yet before there will beany noticeable lowering of the Great Lakes, sothat we need not be concerned. Strange as it may seem, the lake has tides,too, well-defined tides, discovered in i860. Itis what is called a self-registering tide, with aregular flux and reflux wave, caused, so… … AT NIGHT, ON LAKE ERIE. old lake captains, a bronzed, kindly-faced manwho had been for thirty-five years on the lakes,and had faced death many a time in the fright-ful storms which sometimes sweep across thesebeautiful bodies of water, told me, as we werepassing along one day near the north coast…

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