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A NOBLE stream, born among the snow- 

 clad hills, gathering power from the 

 rivulets that joyously rush to its 

 • embrace on its seaward flight, pours 

 forth its strength through a ravine grand in 

 its rugged beauty. Stern are the rocky barriers 

 that, in their attempt to impede, succeed only in 

 causing a crashing into angry surgings of the mass 

 of waters that throw themselves in victory against 

 and over these battlements, — the mad and glorious 

 assault causing veils of tinted vapor to hover over 

 the scene, like fairy clouds of misty shrouding. 

 These natural falls are lashed into feathery foaming 

 where their strength is crushed against the boulders 

 of the river's bed, and then more even becomes 

 the flow. Where a sharp turn of the stream is 

 made, the quiet waters of a pool is formed. Here, 

 just beyond the mad whirl, the powerful little finny 

 knights in their shimmering armor of bright color- 

 ing love to rest. To attain a point of vantage the 



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