 | Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...drawn and detained for a short time. Planters are large bodios of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner,...about a foot above the surface of the water in its middlins state ; so firmly are they rooted, that the largest boat running agaiiwt them, wilt not move... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Economics - 1837 - 164 pages
...destruction, to the boats which navigate it. Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about one foot above the surface of the water, when at its medium height. So firmly are they rooted, that... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 302 pages
...destruction, to the boats which navigate it. Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by the roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about one foot above the surface of the water, when at its medium height. So firmly are they rooted, that... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Canoes and canoeing - 1887 - 458 pages
...and even destruction to the boats. "Planters" are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing not more than a foot above the surface of the water when at its medinm height. So firmly are they rooted... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Mississippi River - 1889 - 524 pages
...and even destruction to the boats. "Planters" are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing not more than a foot above the surface of the water when at its medium height. So firmly are they rooted... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Mississippi River - 1892 - 540 pages
...and even destruction to the boats. "Planters" are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing not more than a foot above the surface of the water when at its medinm height. So firmly are they rooted... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Ohio River - 1903 - 230 pages
...sawyers, and wooden islands.46 46 " Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner,...they rooted, that the largest boat running against " We shall endeavor to instruct the unexperienced navigator how to avoid them. The instability of the... | |
 | Elias Pym Fordham - Edwards County (Ill.) - 1906 - 268 pages
...and ripples. Beavertown, 8 a mis1 " Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner,...against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat. "Sawyers are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and... | |
 | Elias Pym Fordham - Edwards County (Ill.) - 1906 - 270 pages
...eddies and ripples. Beavertown,2 a mis1 " Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner,...against them, will not move them, but they frequently injure the boat. " Sawyers are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and... | |
 | Charles Frederic Goss - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1912 - 694 pages
...planters, sawyers and wooden islands. "Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner,...above the surface of the water in its middling state. Sawyers are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and rather of a less... | |
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Planters are large bodies of trees firmly fixed by their roots in the bottom of the river, in a perpendicular manner, and appearing no more than about a foot above the surface of the water in its middling state. So firmly are they rooted, that the largest... 
