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side. Thus the river is like a sea that divides 

 territories and races one from the other. 



Here are two separate regions teeming with 

 different occupants. And, as if still further to 

 keep up the resemblance to the ocean, the hoarse 

 cry of the Petrel and the Sea-mew is heard ; and 

 they dart along the water and skim the waves, 

 as though they mistook them for the briny deep !. 



