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Updated: May 26, 2025

Great cities stud its shores; but they are powerless to dim the transparency of its waters. Steamships cover the broad bosom of its lakes and estuaries; but they change not the beauty of the water-no more than the fleets of the world mark the waves of the ocean.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America