 | James Alton James - 1914 - 606 σελίδες
...specific class of boats, and only illustrating the whimsical archetypes of things that have previously existed in the brain of inventive men, who reject...Mississippi you will not see, actually in motion. This variety of boats, so singular in form, and most of them apparently so frail, is destined in many... | |
 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1916 - 90 σελίδες
...craft, named, from the manner of making them, 'dug-outs,' and canoes hollowed from smaller trees . . . You can scarcely imagine an abstract form in which...Mississippi you will not see, actually in motion. . . This variety of boats, so singular in form, and most of them apparently so frail, is destined in... | |
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... existed in the brain of inventive men, who reject the slavery of being obliged to build in any received form. You can scarcely imagine an abstract form in which a boat can be built, that in some part of the Ohio or Mississippi you will not see, actually... 