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The town of Meaux has a busy population of about 10,000 souls, in peaceable times principally occupied in manufacturing flour for the Paris market, having a fine waterpower for the many mills.
"Its story is soon told," Harry said, catching my inquiring glance "a speculating, clever New York merchant a waterpower a failure and a consequent desertion of the project; but we must find a birth among the ruins!" And as he spoke, turning a little off the road, he pulled up on the green sward; "there's an old stable here that has a manger in it yet! Now, Tim, look sharp!"
On both sides of the river this huge monster had squatted, effectually shutting out all sight of the Falls and depriving the people of their birthright of beauty, at the same time that it had harnessed the vast waterpower to the task of enslaving the world.
Anthony, which stretch across the river, fifteen hundred feet, and have a fall of eighty-two feet a waterpower which, by art, has been made of inestimable value, business-wise, though somewhat to the damage of the Falls as a spectacle, or as a background against which to get your photograph taken.
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