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...guides in the canoes with the baggage. At times, however, the advance along the bank is impracticable, and then we take to the canoes; and our advice to the uninitiated is to sit down in the bottom, as single skulls are not the only kind of boats that upset easily. In the river, too, we encounter waterfalls, shoots, and beaver-dams. At some places the stream narrows, and the trees interlace their branches over our heads. On each side of the valley rise hills fifteen to sixteen hundred feet high. Day dawns at about three in July...
...first race for single sculls had the following entries: Stone, '74, Kidner, '75, Weld, '76, Wheelwright, '76, Tappan, '76. Mr. Tappan had some difficulty in keeping his centre of gravity within the sides of the shell, and unfortunately upset. What would have been the result of the race had this accident not occurred it is not possible to conjecture...
...immense culture requisite to become master of the Ruskin mode of thought may at first appear a desirable objective point. But reflection cannot fail to show that, where one attains the desired end, a hundred advance on the path only so far as to upset their faith in their old ideas of art. These substitute in its place such a doubt of their power to appreciate works of true genius, and such a fear lest their ignorance of some technical point may lead them into some un-Ruskinian expression of admiration, that the pleasure which they feel in contemplating masterpieces...