. Ottawa, the picturesque city. I nt erior (larnegie Library. Ottawa in 1613. Parkman writes as follows in his fascinating history ofChamplains trip up the Ottawa from Ville Marie (Montreal)and his first sight of the Rideau and Chaudiere Falls in ,some three hundred years ago: The canoes were launchedagain, and the voyagers held their course. Soon the stillsurface was flecked with spots of foam; islets of froth floatedby, tokens of some great convulsion. Then, on their left,the falling curtain of the Rideau shone like silver betwixtits bordering woods, and in front, white as a snowdrift,
. Ottawa, the picturesque city. I nt erior (larnegie Library. Ottawa in 1613. Parkman writes as follows in his fascinating history ofChamplains trip up the Ottawa from Ville Marie (Montreal)and his first sight of the Rideau and Chaudiere Falls in ,some three hundred years ago: The canoes were launchedagain, and the voyagers held their course. Soon the stillsurface was flecked with spots of foam; islets of froth floatedby, tokens of some great convulsion. Then, on their left,the falling curtain of the Rideau shone like silver betwixtits bordering woods, and in front, white as a snowdrift, thecataracts of the Chaudiere barred the way. They saw theunbridled river careering down its sheeted rocks, foamingin unfathomed chasms, wearying the solitude with the hoarseoutcry of its agony and rage. On the brink of the rockybasin, where the plunging torrent boiled like a caldron, andpuffs of spray sprang out from its concussion like smokefrom the throat of a cannon, Champlains two Indians tooktheir stand and, with a loud invocation, threw tobacco intot
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