Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-05
AMERICAN TRAVEL.

pr,ne.pai Mode-Wesr- pg once css,,ararion Isefore 1sio.
 srn ara m Eggleston lectured re-
 Ea~4 the Peabody institute on fly ~ af Travel and Western MlRla M .hs Pdes s,.a ol fs1o,' the third of the BefotsT .,Tbe Culture-History of the fse on pan,,e.S no Dr. Eggleston has |srlean l9e,a,nortant historical research l,,1t on ! Nj l,lip lipct and he presents the fesars seasa,. su pJesS, work in thoroughly inter H ans god nd instructive way o;a
 ua5 Ss the main modes of trayei, tas. ;n the t1ns {, 'frs ,'ants s,,s were near the water ih pa sa's 4 tlellldi anlopial period, Lancaster aa,, aa rly eo,on'~1 9sa only inland town of any fpg the ;t O had a population o5Ssen r, r and It the na1 close of the reyol i1ssSn 7usan' in any large way was ave' sloops. On the AaSson ne III l,o boatmen lived with Ter lilies sry ia the sloeps, as boat eir ,9s as1 ;n Holland, and as their sue, sp s als' the h canal and towboatmen 5 ana zso'4' families do at the present aay. slr ian Iras slow-going at that tune, ' llls a!sawater Virginia counties were Re Viae ~ that each county would lie &olly on one river' '1a in 9foea sa nade ,alJs
 UeI to the county seat eoaio oe in''e |4 4H,ss Msss nereauger, or pettyanger' IS U Ut pe4 4..as called. played an inn
 nt mart in shoal-water navlgatioh' | 'ane .aord is derived from the spanlsh' Es is ignorantly defined Tn many many "iI "
 p ID ,ies ie as a canoe or erry-boat, IL |2ia' .ua rss a canoe, but sort of galley, sYel ", n~ an ancient and primitive m t had two masts, when coulo
 ..,,an ,n down, and it could os pro
 .d oaA hy oars. It had no upper oech |'ee .t;,,o shelter at each end. Il |*cepet the eommonest coasting yes
 sann +ae West Indies to Long Is
 sopnd. For all smaller naylgatlol F,aas of various kinds were used, l It no o@,e or split canoe, with a ooare
 i v ;a the middle, carried as high a
 ~. s.. or even eighty barrels ot pltch N 'r,e s bnllboat was made by putting 5 me of wood inside the skin of a pal <.aa o, OK It was of immense antlqal
 at least two thousand years an s;,obablv four thousand years oid' nav 7 been described in poem or h'
 a,o which is beautifully translate 3sr Sir Walter Raleigh in these 1res and vigorous lines;
 ss.The moistened ozier of the neaVy WILLOW
 Ts woven first into little boat, ,.,,o 'yben clothedin bulloek's hide, upon tno 'iAao
 Of proud river doth lt node
 4ynder the waterman;
 4 Co m the lakes of oyerswelling Pc s Soils inc Venitean and the Briton so'
 f,n the outspread ocean.
 s .erbis boat, which C@sar found us' ;,, Britain. is still used on the we seoast of Ireland, where it is called sc,,rragh, the word doubtless being c lived from the eoracle of Caesar. slreland the boat is now covered WI $canyas instead of skins.
 e1Ehe Indians were in the haslt
 carrving the skin coverings with th'
 on their journeys by land, and tin
 eutting from a tree the wood for s4emnorary frame whenever 1t N
 necessary to cross the water. Witt
 4en wears this form of canoe was us
 on the frontier. A man and his s
 more than one hundred and s1' zvears ago. made the first voyage u
 was ever made by an Engllshn
 down the Ohio and Mississippi rly < to New Orleans in one of these Do. sasThe man. John Howard. on his arrl
 was arrested by the French as
 picious character and sent to frar
 He afterward got away, and It was
 who gave to Lord Fairfax informal z which enabled him to secure some z Hhe most valuable lands in Virginia S Baltimore Sun.