. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. Ixxiv LIFE OF WILSON. " I now stripped, with alacrity, to uiy new avocation. Tlio current wont about two rnd a half uiiles an hour, and I added about three and a half miles more to the boat's way with my oara. In the course of the day I passed a number of arks, or, as they are usually called, Kentucky boats, loaded with what it must bo acknowledged are the most valuable commodities of a country ; viz., men, women and chi
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. Ixxiv LIFE OF WILSON. " I now stripped, with alacrity, to uiy new avocation. Tlio current wont about two rnd a half uiiles an hour, and I added about three and a half miles more to the boat's way with my oara. In the course of the day I passed a number of arks, or, as they are usually called, Kentucky boats, loaded with what it must bo acknowledged are the most valuable commodities of a country ; viz., men, women and children, horses and ploughs, flour, millstones, &c. Several of these floating caravans were loaded with store poods for the s\ipply of the settlement* through which they , having erected, shawls, mus- lins, itc, displayed, and everything ready for transacting business. Ou approaching a settlement they blow a horn or tin trumpet, which announces to the inhubitanta their arrival. I boarded many of these arks, and felt much iiitercsteJ at the sight of so many human beings, migrating like birds of age to tl e luxuriant regions of the south and west. The arks are built in the form of a parallelogram, being from twelve to fourteen feet wide, and from forty to seventy feet long, covered above, rowed only occasionally by two oars before, and steered by a long and powerful one fixed above, as in the annexed sketch. Ark. Burgt for pafuiuj up " The barges are taken up along shore by setting poles, at the rate tif twenty miles or BO a day; the arks about one hundred and fifty cents p(!r foot, according to their length; and whin tlicy reach tluir i>laccs of destination, seldom bring more than one-sixth their original These arks descend from all parts of the Ohio and its tributary streams, the Alleghany, Monon- gahela, ;kinguni, Heiota, Miami, Kentucky, Wabash, kc, in the months of March, April, and May particularly, with goods,
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