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the wind, and against the stream, sail higher than
forests and mountains. The water must raise,
steam must drive them!"
"Yes," said I.
"Yes," said he, and again yes, with a sigh
which I did not then understand; but, months
after, I understood it, and I will at once make
a spring to that time, and we are again at
Trollhätta.
I came here in the autumn, on my return
home; stayed some days in this mighty piece of
nature, where busy human life forces its way more
and more in, and, by degrees, transforms the
picturesque to the useful manufactory. Trollhätta
must do her work; saw beams, drive mills, hammer
and break to pieces: one building grows up
by the side of the other, and in half a century
hence here will be a city. But that was not the
story.
I came, as I have said, here again in the
autumn. I found the same rushing and
roaring, the same din, the same rising and
sinking in the sluices, the same chattering boys
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