There comes with it no warmth of human 

 emotion, but only the breath of the un- 

 broken woods, the awful aspect of the 

 great precipitous cliffs, the vast solitude out 

 of which it rolls, with troubled current, to 

 mingle its mysterious waters with the north- 

 ern gulf. It is a stream which Nature still 

 keeps for herself, and suffers no division 

 of ownership with men ; a stream as wild 

 and solitary as the remote and unpeopled 

 land through which it moves. This river, 

 on the other hand, bears every hour the 

 wealth of a great inland commerce upon 

 its wide current; it flows past cities and 

 villages scattered thickly along its course, 

 past countless homes whose lights weave a 

 shining net along its banks at night; on 

 still Sabbath mornings the bells answer each 

 other in almost unbroken peal along its 

 course. Emerging from an unknown past 

 in the earliest days of discovery, human 

 interests have steadily multiplied along its 

 shores, and spread over it the countless 

 lines of human activity. To-day the Argo, 

 multiplied a thousand times, seeks the 

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