corner-pickets

Updated: May 2, 2025

We made our little raft in three cribs, of a thousand feet of boards in each crib, which we connected together by short pieces of scantling, which are bored near each end with a two-inch auger and strung on the corner-pickets of each crib, thus uniting them in one length. At each end of the raft, a long oar is securely fixed, in temporary rowlocks for that purpose.

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)