160 JOURNEY TO THE SEA 



their heads with one accord and make their way 

 rapidly to the sea. 



Mostly, following the sides and shallow parts of 

 the stream, but in the dangerous rapids, keeping well 

 down in the river channel, they go towards the sea ; 

 flashing like bolts of silver, plunging down the cascades 

 and shooting over the caps of the big falls, they pass 

 gradually from the purer and colder waters of the 

 upper river into the muddy and warmer waters of the 

 tidal reaches, whence they finally emerge into the cool, 

 food-abounding paradise of their ocean inheritance. 



