wharf-logs

Updated: June 17, 2025

When the boats are beached, and the wharf-logs grow, with successive layers congealed from every tide, into huge spindles of ice, the same element offers its glassy surface to the skater. That skating has actually become fashionable among the gentler sex we regard as the strongest indication of an awakening national taste for exercise. But there is need of caution.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859