Historic waterways; six hundred miles of canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin rivers by Thwaites Reuben Gold 1853-1913

Author:Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Wisconsin -- Description and travel
Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg
Published: 1888-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

orchestral accompaniment upon our voyage that could be fully appreciated only in a Chinese theatre.

In the pockets and the sloughs, we find thousands of yellow and white water-lilies, and sometimes progress is impeded by masses of creeping root-stalks which have been torn from their muddy bed by the upheaval of the ice, and now float about in great rafts, firmly anchored by the few whose extremities are still imbedded in the ooze.

Fishing-boats were also occasionally met with this morning, occupied by Packvvaukee people ; for in the widespreads just above this village, the pickerel thrives mightily off the swarms of perch who love these reedy seas; and the weighty sturgeon often swallows a hook and gives his captor many a frenzied tug before he consents to enter the "live-box" which floats behind each craft.

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