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Let us now turn our thoughts to the wilderness which then enshrouded the spot where we have this day assembled and contemplate the sombre silence which then brooded over the sullen waters of Grand river, whose dense overhanging forests excluded the rays of the noonday sun. The startled fawn gazed from the banks upon the wild fowl floating down the current, the bald eagle screamed from the overhanging buttonwood, and the wolf from the distant jungle gave response with a funereal howl. Here and there through the neighboring townships might have been seen half cut roadways, encumbered and obstructed by giant stumps and massive logs.
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