Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 503
fromday to day with wind and tide. In that threadalone is safety; elsewhere is ruin and wreck.Instantly he must read the message of a boil-ing eddy or the menace of a beckoning reef,and take it this way or that instantly, for thereare the hungry rocks on either hand. He mustknow things without… … A STEAMBOAT IN THE LACHINE RAPIDS. in shooting these rapids (it was on one of thelarge river boats), and I must confess that itgave me no very thrilling sense of danger.There were two or three plunges, to be sure, atthe steepest part, and a little swaying or lurch-ing, but, so far as movement goes,…
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