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Lake Barge Augustus Unloading Pine at Garden Island

Lake Barge Augustus Unloading Pine at Garden Island. From A Saga of the St. Lawrence by D. D. Calvin, opposite page 54. The caption reads:

A stick of timber from the deck-load can be seen about to fall into the water. The barge is aground; when sufficiently lightened, she would haul across, to the right, and moor to a pier opposite "the capstan house" (hidden) whose winches would unload the timber from her hold, through her bow-ports. At the left is "the old store"; the eighty-foot sheer-legs show between the barge's masts; over her cabin is a mast of another lake vessel; at the barge's stern, under her "counter," floats her "yawl-boat."

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