Excerpt from Hugh Miller's The Old Red Sandstone (1841) DBQ |
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Steam boilers discharge into it their seething contents, and drains and sewers their fetid impurities; till at length it rolls on—here between tall dingy walls, there under precipices of red sandstone—considerably less a river than a flood of liquid manure. Document-based questions: 1. How were rivers polluted during this period? 2. Imagine that you are a Briton reading this in 1841. How might you react? Explain. Click here to print. Answers will vary. |
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