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trust to my own discretion, whicli fortunately carried 

 the boats safely to their place of destination. I learned 

 afterwards, that seeing our boats were mere insignificant 

 cockle-shells borne down t>y the flood with great im- 

 petuosity, they were fearful that we should be carried 

 down the mill-dam, and come in contact with the ma- 

 chinery. But a better fate awaited us than such a 

 Quixotic one ; and after a little rough work, in which we 

 shipped a reasonable quantity of water, we at length 

 approached the vast bleaching grounds of Perth, where 

 the river swept swift and ample in an even channel 

 under a wooded bank studded with villas; we then 

 darted through the middle arch of the beautiful l^ridge 

 in the town, and hauled up our boats on a wharf 

 below it. 



