Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 485
he boat being rather toowide. It was afterward rigged with wooden, andfinally with, iron, rowlocks (B, B, B, Fig. 5) andlight oars. I also put in several extra thwarts orcross-sticks, fore and aft, and made a movableseat (A, Fig. 5). With these improvements it is sosatisfactory that I have since… … three miles and a half (in a straight line) east ofour lake is a smaller one, surrounded by high hills.It is a very picturesque sheet of water, aboundingin fish, water-fowl, immense frogs, and innumer-able mosquitoes. Having seen this lake from adistance, and not knowing much about it, exceptby…
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