 | Priscilla Wakefield - History - 1806 - 444 pages
...These are for the accommodation of. Q S. 345 the merchants and their clerks, during their short stay there. The north men live under tents ; but the more frugal pork eater, or canoe man, lodges beneath his canoe. The portage here is nine miles over hills and mountains; but... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Commerce - 1873 - 304 pages
...is clear and incised; and on the left corner of it, beneath a hill, 300 or 400 feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar palisadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered w1th shingles. They are calculated for... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 648 pages
...is clear and incised ; and on the left corner of it, beneath a hill, 300 or 400 feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar palisadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for... | |
 | Minnesota - 1898 - 618 pages
...inclosed; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar pallsadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for... | |
 | Minnesota - 1898 - 622 pages
...inclosed; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar palisadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1914 - 680 pages
...enclosed; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar pallisailoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Explorers - 1902 - 378 pages
...inclosed; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is...calculated for every convenience of trade, as well Ixxvi as to accommodate the proprietors and clerks during their short residence there. The north men... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Explorers - 1903 - 372 pages
...inclosed ; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is...The north men live under tents: but the more frugal pork-eater lodges beneath his canoe. The soil immediately bordering on the lake has not proved very... | |
 | Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Fur trade - 1903 - 376 pages
...with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for every convenience of trade, as well Ixxvi as to accommodate the proprietors and clerks during...The north men live under tents: but the more frugal pork-eater lodges beneath his canoe. The soil immediately bordering on the lake has not proved very... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Algonquian languages - 1927 - 544 pages
...inclosed; and on the left corner of it, beneath an hill, three or four hundred feet in height, and crowned by others of a still greater altitude, is the fort, picketed in with cedar ballisadoes, and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for... | |
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... and inclosing houses built with wood and covered with shingles. They are calculated for every convenience of trade, as well as to accommodate the proprietors and clerks during their short residence there. 