File:DurhamBoat-MohawkR.jpg
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English: "A View of the Boats & manner of navigating on the Mohawk River". Marked "Published by I. Riley, July 1810", "Ch. Loss del — P. Maverick sc Newark". The boat with sails is a Durham boat. The V-shaped structure in the river is a rock wing dam. Caption by M. Paul Keesler: "The crew pulls a Durham Boat through a modified eel weir on the Mohawk River." Keesler, M. Paul (2008) "10 - The Canals" in Mohawk: Discovering the Valley of the Crystals, North Country Press ISBN: 9781595310217. "Sediments, including rock, cobble, gravel and sand, poured into the Mohawk River from tributary streams during highwater periods, creating bars near the mouths of streams, and riffs and rapids further downstream. While many of these deposits served as river crossings, they were obstacles to navigation. The WILNC adjusted these obstacles by removing rocks, cutting deeper channels . . . and building modified eel weir dams." |
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| Source | http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/eriecanal/images/ec_durhamboatFULL2.jpg |
| Author | Schultz, Christian (1810) Travels on an Inland Voyage through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New-Orleans, Performed in the Years 1807 and 1808, Category:New York Schultz was the artist. See the webpage for a 1996 exhibition at Yale University that included this engraving: Reese, William S.; Miles, George (September 4, 1996). THE ILLUSTRATING TRAVELER. Beinecke Library, Yale University. Retrieved on 2012-06-19. "Schultz, an American investor who set out to investigate the potential of the Ohio Country, went westward across New York in 1807. Like most travelers of the era he went by water where possible, and supplied this evocative, if somewhat off-scale, illustration on the methods used to navigate upstream on the Mohawk River. Schultz observed that the flat boats were similar to those he had seen on the Susquehanna, but longer, and that the method of poling upstream was so slow as to be perfectly safe." |
| Other versions | The present version has been cropped from the original. See also: Engraving, 'A View of the Boats & manner of navigating on the Mohawk River. Publish'd by L. Riley, July 1810.'; 'Rec. Dec. 3, 1932, A.B. Closson, Jr.'. University of Kentucky.[dead link] |
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