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Boating trips on New England rivers (1884)

Fellows, Henry Parker · Boston : Cupples, Upham and company · leaf 106

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wing past the repair-shops of tlie Housatonic Railroad on the west bank, wehauled ashore just above the railroad bridge, and let theboat float along down to the edge of the principal fall. rilK llOUSATUXKJ 111VEll. 103 with II cord. The river makes a plunge here of thirty orforty feet, with… … another at the stern, we let her down to the water at oneside of the fall. We tried to run the rapids below thefall, but the channel was narrow and strewn with rocks,and we, therefore, concluded it was the part of discretionto let the l)oat through with a cord, while we walkedalong the east side of…

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