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Unless you get into white water and rapids it's sometimes hard to see that a river moves in a former logging area like Ottawa you run up hard against the logic of rivers when you consider logs were driven down rivers to markets and mills and when you bump into schools named Philemon Wright or stay at the old lumber baron's mansion up the Prior but when you are landlocked or don't travel the river imagining a river running into the sea is a bit like chasing rainbows you believe there's got to be a treasure but you can't feature what it looks like or see yourself making the discovery yet we are assured that rivers make their way inexorably to the see and even to landlubbers who live up along and rarely visit where they would be said to come from away this makes a certain sense not perfect sense mind but as close as gosh is to swearing sense or maybe a bit more if you're not thick or anything but the actual place where ri...