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But nowadays they clap five men on the tiller and put on more steam and the practical result is the same. The cliffs bordering the cañon, being of a crumbling nature, are known as the Maraniousques; but usually are called by the Rhône boatmen the Monkey Rocks because of the monkeys who dwelt in them in legendary times and stoned from their heights the passing travellers.
By the time that the Deluge fairly was ended, and the Rhône reopened to normal navigation, a large monkey family was established on the Maraniousques; and the monkeys thenceforward illogically revenged themselves upon Noah's descendants by stoning everybody who came along. Later, the ill-tempered monkeys were succeeded by more ill-tempered men.
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