| America - 1824 - 496 pages
...seen a lake of this kind near the height of land on the Grand Portage route. He states that " it has a peculiar suction or attractive power, so that it is difficult to paddle a canoe over it," and further, that he himself " found it very difficult to get away from this attractive power,. with... | |
| William Hypolitus Keating - 1824 - 492 pages
...seen a lake of this kind near the height of land on the Grand Portage route. He states that " it has a peculiar suction or attractive power, so that it is difficult to paddle a canoe over it," and further, that he himself " found it very difficult to get away from this attractive power, with... | |
| Dakota Indians - 1825 - 434 pages
...seen a lake of this kind near the height of land on the Grand Portage route. He states that " it has a peculiar suction or attractive power, so that it is difficult to paddle a canoe over it," and further, that he himself "found it very difficult to get away from this attractive power, with... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 484 pages
...with about three or four feet of water over it, and here I frequently struck a canoe pole of twelve feet long, without meeting any other obstruction than...the south shore where the water is deep, and this elTcct is not felt. In proportion to the distance from this part, the suction becomes more powerful.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...with about three or four feet of water over it, and here I frequently struck a canoe pole of twelve feet long, without meeting any other obstruction than...peculiar suction or attractive power, so that it is difliciilt to paddle a canoe over it. There is a small space along the south shore where the water... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 710 pages
...the decline of autumn, imfeet of water over it, and liere I frequently struck a canoe pole of twelve feet long, without meeting any other obstruction than...however, | a peculiar suction or attractive power, so i that it is difficult to paddle a canoe over it. There is a small space along the south shore where... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 716 pages
...dew." — VOLNBY, p. 244. feet of water over it, and here 1 frequently struck в canoe pole of twelve feet long, without meeting any other obstruction than...There is a small space along the south shore where the wuter is deep, and this effect is not felt. In proportion to the distance from this part, the suction... | |
| Outdoor recreation - 1893 - 640 pages
...slime with about three feet of water over it ; and here I frequently struck a canoe-pole of twelve feet long without meeting any other obstruction than...whole were water : it has, however, a peculiar suction of attractive power, so that it is difficult to paddle a canoe over it. I have indeed been told that... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 714 pages
...with ubuut three or lour feet of water over it, and liere I frequently struck a canoe pole of twelve feet long, without meeting any other obstruction than...from this part, the suction becomes more powerful. 1 have, indeed, been told that loaded canoes have been in danger of being swallowed up, and have only... | |
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