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English text, check out please
Eduardo Hutter 2008-Jun-26 01:41:00
Could someone check my (not native) english please? Sugestions about
style are welcome.
TIA
Eduardo
"Being born and raised in a city like Rio de Janeiro where majestic
mountains raise over 1000 meters high, with vertical
big-bare-rock-walls stretching up to 600 meters right in the middle of
the city, I couldn't help it and to the dismay of my mother, I turned
to be a rock-climber.
Now, eight thousand kilometers distant, two children and
twenty-something years later, I still find the Mount Royal rather
boring on its geography. It's just 233 meters, gentle slopes that are
good for a Sunday evening walk with grandma but like most Montrealers
do, now I feel somewhat proud of our little, err... lets say... lump
on the landscape so, we use to call it "the mountain" with a capital M
(as if it could help and make it bigger).
A bit of history about it: Long before the establishing of the first
catholic cemetery at fort Ville-Marie, which centuries later would
become the city of Montreal, French navigator and explorer Jacques
Cartier climbed the Mount Royal, naming it in honor of Fran?ois I,
king of France. Inaugurated in 1876, the park was originally designed
by Frederick Law Olmsted, whom also designed New York's Central Park.
Uh? What did I just say? That Jacques Cartier climbed it? Go figure."