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"And then C. Vincent Vesey drew back one sleeve from his snowy cuff, and the water came down at Lodore."
Internet says Lodore Canyon is a place for spectacular
white water boating.
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Dear Doc
The ref may have come about because of the popularity of Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Lodore". It is a technically fun poem that is a great study for prosody, onomatopoeia and so on, and hence has frequently been a standard text for children at school. Southey, if you remember, was Poet Laureate before Wordsworth, and today, unfortunately for his reputation, is considered one of the minor Romantic poets.
Check this url for the text:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html
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Dear Shanks: the name "Lodore" sounds to me as though it might be in India rather than in U.S. Can you tell us the location of the river Southey was writing about?
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Dear Doc
As I remember, Southey, along with Wordsworth and Coleridge, was one of the Lake poets, so we must look for Lodore in the Lake District...
...et voila:
http://www.keswick-launch.co.uk/places_lodore.htm
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Dear Shanks:nice work. All I could find was hotels in the Lake District that used the name Lodore.
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