Fellows, Henry Parker · Boston, Cupples, Upham and company · leaf 106
n, rowing past the repair-shops of the 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, THE HO US ATONIC BIVEB. 103 with a 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 boat through with a cord, while we walkedalong the east side of…
Boats and boating · Rivers
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