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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: Little Discharge with the Grand Discharge at the point where the
picturesque club-house stands in a grove of birches beside the big
Vache Caille Falls. It is lively work crossing the pool here, when
the water is high and the canoes are heavy; but we went through the
labouring seas safely, and landed some distance below, at the head
of the Rapide Gervais, to eat our lunch. The water was too rough
to run down with loaded boats, so Damon and I had to walk about
three miles along the river-bank, while the men went down with the
canoes.
On our way beside the rapids, Damon geologised, finding the marks
of ancient glaciers, and bits of iron-ore, and pockets of sand full
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