Trading & Shipping on the Great Lakes, Volume 1Coles, 1980 - 182 páginas |
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... four feet and a half in their extreme breadth , and formed of birch - tree bark , a quarter of an inch in thickness . The bark is lined with small splints of cedar - wood ; and the vessel is further strengthened with ribs of the same ...
... four feet and a half in their extreme breadth , and formed of birch - tree bark , a quarter of an inch in thickness . The bark is lined with small splints of cedar - wood ; and the vessel is further strengthened with ribs of the same ...
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John Brandt Mansfield. The aggregate weight of all this may be estimated at about four tons . Such a canoe , thus loaded , is paddled by eight men , at the rate of four miles per hour , in a perfect calm is carried across portages by four ...
John Brandt Mansfield. The aggregate weight of all this may be estimated at about four tons . Such a canoe , thus loaded , is paddled by eight men , at the rate of four miles per hour , in a perfect calm is carried across portages by four ...
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... four to thirty hours steady watch . The latter end of the season , October and November , when for weeks continuously ' the mad winds blow and the billows roar , ' is the time when one can best judge of the responsibilities , cares and ...
... four to thirty hours steady watch . The latter end of the season , October and November , when for weeks continuously ' the mad winds blow and the billows roar , ' is the time when one can best judge of the responsibilities , cares and ...
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
Shooting the Rapids in St Marys River | 2 |
Steamboat Western World built in 1854 | 15 |
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