The British Library's flickr stream has been entertaining me. Check out this image of the Prince Arthur shooting the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence river.
[ATTACH]46256[/ATTACH]
Wild. But it seems fake to me. Nobody would do that with a ship that size. clearly it's an artist's embellishment.
Then I did a little more digging. People actually did this. We are such wimps today. But we do
live longer.