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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
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MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, FROM ST PAULS CHURCH. 6!) 5H PICTURESQUE AMERICA.
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Grain-Propeller, Buffalo. lect that the standing order for the day is, Charge the d—d rascals with the bayo-nets ! Lake Erie is two hundred and fifty miles long, sixty miles broad, and two hundredand four feet at its greatest depth, although, on an average, it is not more than ninetyfeet deep. Compared with the other lakes, it is shallow; and the difference has beendescribed as follows: The surplus waters poured from the vast basins of Superior,Michigan, and Huron, flow across the plate of Erie into the deep boiul of Ontario.Lake Erie is the only member of the chain which is reputed to have any current. Thecurrent, if there is one, is probably owing to its shallow bed, and the great force of itsoutlet, the Niagara River. But it has another reputation, which is founded on certainty;it is the most dangerous of the fresh-water seas. Its waves are short and chopping, itsharbors insecure, especially along the northern shore, and it has little sea-room. Themouths of its streams are clogge

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