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"Now where the wave, with loud unquiet song, Dash'd o'er the rocky channel, froths along, Or where the silver waters soothed to rest, The tree's tall shadow sleeps upon its breast. " COLERIDGE.
The Indian camp remained for nearly three weeks on this spot, _[FN: Now known by the name of Cambelltown, though, there is but one log-house and some pasture fields; it is a spot long used as a calling place for the steamer that plies on the Otoanbee, between Gore's Landing on the Rice Lake and Peterborough, to take in fire-wood. ]_ and then early one morning the wigwams were all taken down, and the canoes, six in number, proceeded up the river.