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As the great rivers,when falling into the main, lose their name and are thenceforth reckoned as the great
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His "Brooklyn Ferry" and the section entitled "Delaware River—Days and Nights" in "Specimen Days", sufficiently
Presently a cheery shout from the top of a dray; and before we had gone many yards farther the river
York, he had had a "fancy" to visit Sing-sing prison, the great penal establishment up the Hudson river