 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1903 - 232 str.
...ten years ago [1795]. They are square, and flat-bottomed; about forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards ; and accommodated with a fire-place. They require but four hands to navigate them, carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current."58 Rafting... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 396 str.
...Navigator," with fuch other remarks as my own observation and; inquiries could fupply. — HARRIS. the produce or manufacture of the country, are deftined...river oppofite to Pittfburg, and on each fide for fome dif tance, or rather the high hills whofe feet it laves, appear to be one entire body of coal. This... | |
 | Dunbar Rowland - 1907 - 1030 str.
...years ago (1795). They are square, and flat-bottomed ; about forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards; and accommodated with a fire place. They require but four hands to navigate them, carry no sail, and are wafted down by the... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - 1912 - 286 str.
...forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a fire-place. They will hold from 200 to 500...require but four hands to navigate them ; carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current." (Thwaites, Early Western Travels. III., 335.) They were... | |
 | Gershom Flagg - 1912 - 70 str.
...forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a fire-place. They will hold from 200 to 500...require but four hands to navigate them ; carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current." (Thwaites, Early Western Travels, III., 335.) They were... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Library - 1912 - 280 str.
...fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a flre-place. They will hold from 200 to 500 barrels of flour. They...require but four hands to navigate them ; carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current." (Thwaites, Early Western Travels. III., 335.) They were... | |
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Tour (1803) describes them as "square, and flatbottomed ; about forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a fire-place. They will hold from 200 to 500 barrels of flour. They require but... 