The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. (William Cullen Bryant)

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

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