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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
Subjects: Erie from Federal Hill
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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Ship-Canal and Coal-Docks, Buffalo. boats, which seem doomed to be ground to powder at the docks, the washing goes on,and the clothes are hung out as usual. The shores of Lake Erie are wooded, rising, on an average, sixty feet above thewater. Through this plateau the streamscome down in gorges and ravines, and thebanks are full of springs and quicksands. In a north wind the water is dark, and thewaves dash on the beach with a loud roar; in an east wind it is sea-green, the white-caps curl toward the west, and it has a treacherous aspect; but, when the west windblows, it is a blue summer sea, over which the ships sail gayly under a cloud of canvas.Only when the south wind comes off the land, bringing a gray rain-storm, does the lakelose all its beauty. Then it sullenly sinks into lethargy; the woods on its shores stand
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5i8 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. desolate; and the little villages, each with its long, dripping dock and warehouse, lookso miserable that the lake-traveller hastily betakes himself to the inmost depths of thecabin and the most exciting novel he can find. Mirage is seen on Erie at times, but fogs rarely, unless it be that soft haze of thetwilight through which the vessels steal by each other like so many phantom-ships. In

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