pleasure-boating

Updated: May 8, 2025

That river alone half made the place, for it was one of those useless rivers, so commercial men called it, where the most you could do was pleasure-boating; barges only being able to ascend to Coleby Bridge, a sort of busy colony from the town, two miles nearer the sea.

George Manville Fenn - Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel