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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ded from another; wood from Lake Huron, and limestone from thewestern islands, are coming in; coal and petroleum are going out; and the lines ofslow-moving lumber-barges, the schooners and barks, the canal-boats, propellers, and side-wheel steamers, have only the narrow, crooked river for a roadway. The incoming tugcatches a sight of all this confusion from the light-house at the end of the pier, andwhistles defiantly. Hers it is to take the vessel safely to its berth, a mile up theriver, and she does it ; but what a labyrinth ! On each deck stands each captain, fromthe well-dressed commander of the passenger-steamer to the grimy boss of the coal-barge. They halloa; they yell ; they ring bells ; they sound whistles ; they back theirboats; they start them forward; they edge them sideways; they squeeze, grind, race,crawl, or charge through, according to their several dispositions, but through, all! TheEastern passenger, going out on the evening boat, clutches his umbrella in alarm as he
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Light-House, Buffalo. 5i6 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. sees round the curve the incoming tug with its three-masted bark in tow, entirely fillingthe channel. He glances at his captain, outlined against the soft evening sky on thehurricane-deck ; but the captain merely rings his bell; the wheelsman clanks his chainsin the pilot-house; and on sail the two great hulks, apparently determined to crush eachother to atoms. The passenger looks on, and even thinks of jumping ashore; a fewfeet less, and he might do it, the river is so narrow. Then come a sudden clang, rattle,shout, and quiver; the steamer leaps backward and sideways for an instant; the tugclaws the opposite bank in fury; the great vessel swings slowly aside; and the twoboats pass each other, with hardly an inch to spare. And all the while on the canal-

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