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1032.

In the spring, torrential with melting snow and ice, the roar of the Itimaajuk, Franklin Lake Rapids, can be heard at a distance of twelve miles or more, a bass murmur, underlying the frenetic little freshnets, and their surf shows as a white line of breakers on the horizon.

Jean Briggs, Never in Anger, Harvard University Press, 1970, p.11.

TIME: 20th c. in the spring

PLACE: the Arctic


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