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Immigration increased to meet an ambitious public works program of canals to bypass the St. Lawrence rapids and cross the Niagara peninsula, as well as of new cities, mines, and roads.
What I'm less sure of is this: When John Travolta turned down the $20 million that his clients clearly wanted, why would Meryl Streep risk her life to row him through the rapids?
The well-marked walk loops around the upper falls tumbling into a ravine, then follows the river rapids along to the lower falls that crash into another rocky gorge.
Navigation is hindered by sandbars at the mouth and rapids upriver, though small, sea-going vessels can make fair headway up the Rejang in Sarawak and up the Kinabatangan in Sabah.
Turn north at Hope to Yale, an old fort of the Hudson’s Bay Company, terminus of its stern-wheelers unable to negotiate the rapids upriver — at low water you can still see their ring tie-ups on the river bank.