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Timber was plenty, but there were no saw mills to manufacture it into lumber. The only resource seemed to be a log house, and how to build such an one large enough for the apparent need was the problem. The plan of constructing four houses of hewed logs, corner- ing together and forming the fifth, occurred to him and was adopted. The ground figure of this building was exactly that of a fox and geese board, and whilst on one side of each house the labor and expense of providing the logs were sav...ed, the union forming a fifth resulted as a consequence. The di- mensions of each of these four buildings were about eighteen by twenty-four feet and two stories in height, the middle one EARLY METHODS OE TRANSPORTATION. 293 eighteen by eighteen and three stories, with a lookout on top. The spring and summer of 1803 were spent in the erec- tion of this castle. Liberty Hall, as it was called, was no doubt properly conducted, but some of the frontier public places were vile places.
In 1 810, DeWitt Clinton, with a party, traveled through New York State to investigate a canal route, and thus describes his experience at a typical backwoods tavern: "We found the house, which is kept by one Magie, crowded with noisy, drunken people, and the landlord, wife and son were in the same situation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Timber was plenty, but there were no saw mills to manufacture it into lumber. The only resource seemed to be a log house, and how to build such an one large enough for the apparent need was the problem. The plan of constructing four houses of hewed logs, corner- ing together and forming the fifth, occurred to him and was adopted. The ground figure of this building was exactly that of a fox and geese board, and whilst on one side of each house the labor and expense of providing the logs were sav...ed, the union forming a fifth resulted as a consequence. The di- mensions of each of these four buildings were about eighteen by twenty-four feet and two stories in height, the middle one EARLY METHODS OE TRANSPORTATION. 293 eighteen by eighteen and three stories, with a lookout on top. The spring and summer of 1803 were spent in the erec- tion of this castle. Liberty Hall, as it was called, was no doubt properly conducted, but some of the frontier public places were vile places.
In 1 810, DeWitt Clinton, with a party, traveled through New York State to investigate a canal route, and thus describes his experience at a typical backwoods tavern: "We found the house, which is kept by one Magie, crowded with noisy, drunken people, and the landlord, wife and son were in the same situation.
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