timber-vessels

Updated: May 8, 2025

But a new trade, has lately commenced on Lake Ontario, which will break up some of the hardships of the rafting. Old steamboats of very large size, when no longer serviceable in their vocation, are now cut down, and perhaps lengthened, masted, and rigged as barques or ships, and treated in every respect like the Atlantic timber-vessels.

Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - Canada and the Canadians: Volume I