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English: To the trapper it is especially valuable for all purposes of transportation. The flat bottom rests upon the surface of the snow, and the weight being thus distributed a load of two or three hundred pounds will often make but little impression and can be drawn with marvellous ease. Our illustration gives a very clear idea of the sled, and it can be made in the following way: the first requisite is a board about eight feet in length and sixteen or more inches in width. . . .
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Source Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making, scan from Gutenberg etext
Author William Hamilton Gibson, 1850–1896

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