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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: cataract. Another quiet stretch was followed by another fall, and
so on, along the whole course of the river.
We passed three of these falls in the first day's voyage (by
portages so steep and rough that an Adirondack guide would have
turned gray at the sight of them), and camped at night just below
the Chute du Diable, where we found some ouananiche in the foam.
Our tents were on an islet, and all around we saw the primeval,
savage beauty of a world unmarred by man,
The river leaped, shouting, down its double stairway of granite,
rejoicing like a strong man to run a race. The after-glow in the
western sky deepened from saffron to violet among the tops of the
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