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Even though these worker, be they lumbermen or sailors would not have had a lot of spare time, 'eternizing' themselves by carving their names into this very hard rock,clearly was an important enterprise. This rock is hard. During the English Renaissance period 'eternising' one's friends and loves was in fashion, but the poets in those days worked a more malleable material - words. They wrote poems. Samuel Cairns, who had spent his little leisure time carving his name into the rock, came from Port Elgin on Lake Huron and was here on a Sunday in NOV 1883. T Tailor was here too, but left no date.
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