The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 285
. So you have paper proved to be possible asa skin for your boat as a substitute for birch bark. Another substitute and a farstronger one is canvas. We will now proceed to get out the framework of the boat in question. In the diagram (Fig. 4) you have sheer plan, body and deck plan, of a… … this principle of the canoe you propose building, and the simijlest scale you canuse is that of one inch to a foot, and in this way, if you decide on a canoe fifteen feet by two feet by one foot,the plan on paper will befifteen inches by two inchesby one inch, which you canmultiply by twelve to get…
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