This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...is much superior.' 'Well, never mind, William; we are all very happy. It has all turned out like a fairy tale; and I am sure we can say with truth that this has been for us all a happy New-year.' CANADIAN LUMBERERS. Few people have any idea of the dangers and difficulties that attend the trade by which Great Britain is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...is much superior.' 'Well, never mind, William; we are all very happy. It has all turned out like a fairy tale; and I am sure we can say with truth that this has been for us all a happy New-year.' CANADIAN LUMBERERS. Few people have any idea of the dangers and difficulties that attend the trade by which Great Britain is supplied with the timber used in her various requirements. They observe large timber ships discharging on her quays, and suppose, perhaps, that it is the result of a trade no more hazardous to life than that of any other product of this globe which they see complacently drawn within Britain's mighty commercial vortex. Very different, however, is the fact: in the production and handling of timber in all its stages, from the felling of the tree to its transport across the ocean, more lives are lost through accident, more coolness and contempt of danger called for, than perhaps in any other pursuit. After the logs have been sawed to the proper length, they are placed on a wooden truck, a sort of rude lumber sleigh, or else simply fastened to the oxen by means of the logging ohain, and thus conveyed over the snow to the ice; when the whole number are collected together, they are surrounded by a circular enclosure of timbers securely pinned together, to prevent the logs from floating away when the waters of the lakes rise, which they do to a considerable height after the melting of the snow and breaking up of the ice has swelled the tributary streams and springs. After the owner of the logs has been duly advertised that the boom is completed, and you have called in two competent witnesses to bear testimony that the logs have been properly secured, you are no longer accountable for any accident that may happen to them. The proprietor, if he be a pr...
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