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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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place & is studded with many islands, perhaps it may some day be a resort of the fashionables of Ottowa. Met here a missionary of the Society Prop-Gospel. 12th Ottowa to Prescott 54 miles by Rr. $.1.50 hours 2.30 min Prescott to Kingston through the Bay of the thousand islands scattered about in every shape & size. 13th Kingston to Montreal down the rapids of the St Lawrence, the engines nearly stopped still the steamer is carried on through the boiling foaming rapid at a pace that makes the ordinary fanning wind of the steamer turn into a hurricane -- distance 140 miles.
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place & is studded with many islands, perhaps it may some day be a resort of the fashionables of Ottowa. Met here a missionary of the Society Prop-Gospel. 12th Ottowa to Prescott 54 miles by Rr. $.1.50 hours 2.30 min Prescott to Kingston through the Bay of the thousand islands scattered about in every shape & size. 13th Kingston to Montreal down the rapids of the St Lawrence, the engines nearly stopped still the steamer is carried on through the boiling foaming rapid at a pace that makes the ordinary fanning wind of the steamer turn into a hurricane -- distance 140 miles.
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