LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NUMBER PAGE 1. Indians making a log canoe. 12mo. 2. 3. C. French. C. 4 8 6. Building pinnaces in New Amsterdam for coastal jour- 22 7. Constructing a large sailing boat on land. 8vo. Lith. 26 8. Earliest type of bridge in the Wilderness. 8vo. C 27 9. Second variety of the primitive American bridge. 4to. 10. Movement of an organized caravan through the forest. 34 11. First forms of the ark and keel-boat; most primitive craft Two keel-boats working their way up a small river. 41 13. Bill submitted by a ferryman of Massachusetts Bay Prov- 43 14. An early sailing ferry boat in New York Harbor. NUMBER 15. First type of wheeled vehicles to appear in America: pri- PAGE 47 16. The type of sleigh called the cariole. 8vo. A. English. 49 17. Winter travel on snow-shoes in New England. - Sm. C. 51 18. Winter travel by means of the dog-sled. 8vo. Lith. The Yarmouth coach. Sm. C. English. c. 1780... 69 22. A New England two-wheeled ox-cart in a New Haven 75 23. The caleche, an ancestor of the one-horse chaise. 12mo. 24. A very fine private coach of the late 18th century. - F. 85 25. Manner of taking a private coach across a river. - 8vo. 26. Third step in the evolution of the bridge: built of timber, to sustain wagons. 12mo. S. Amer. c. 1835... 93 27. A backwoodsman and his dog.-O. Dr. by Joshua Shaw. 98 28. Backwoodsmen at work in the forest.-O. Dr. by Joshua. After the ax had passed. Appearance of newly cleared 107 30. The home and clearing of a backwoodsman. 8vo. Lith. - 111 31. 32. A cabin dweller's home. - 12mo. Lith. Amer. 33. NUMBER Floor plans and section of the blockhouse shown in the - PAGE 34. preceding. Sm. F. C. English. 1780. 125 129 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. Pioneer ferryman navigating a small canoe by means of a .... Travelling family preparing a meal over a camp-fire. ......... - 132 137 139 143 147 154 158 Town-people as they appeared in the 18th and early 19th A stage wagon: type of the first public and periodic land 173 46. Mercereau's Flying Machine. Sm. Amer. Lith. copy, c. 1845, of W. and T. Adv. Amer. 1771.... 174 47. Stage wagon of the sort used between 1780 and 1800. 178 48. Stage wagon passing through Philadelphia. - 4to. A. 181 49. An early stage running between Baltimore and Washing- NUMBER 50. Announcement of a line of sailing packets. Sm. W. and T. Adv. Amer. 1825.... PAGE 189 51. The main cabin of a passenger sailing packet.—O. Dr. 193 52. Commencement of a journey on a small sailing vessel. 54. A Conestoga wagon approaching Baltimore. - Sm. C. 203 55. Fraunce's Tavern, in New York City. 12mo. Lith. 56. The Notch House, a noted New Hampshire inn. - 4to. 211 57. Poem about a New Hampshire tavern. - 12mo. Amer. 213 58. 59. 60. The Raleigh Tavern. Sm. W. Amer. c. 1860.... 215 218 8vo. 1815 .... 221 61. Travellers in the assembly room of a tavern. - 8vo. W. 225 62. 63. McCann's two-penny piece: tavern money of the Revo- 227 229 64. Fitch's first steamboat; built in 1785. — Sm. W. Amer. 235 65. Propulsion method of Fitch's first boat. Sm. W. Amer. 238 ... 66. Fitch's second boat; operated in 1786. — 8vo. C. Amer. 242 67. 68. Title page of Rumsey's pamphlet on steamboats. 8vo. 245 251 69. 70. NUMBER Contemporary printed account of Fitch's third boat: page PAGE 255 259 71. Fitch's last steam-engine: built in Kentucky in 1798. 263 72. Title page of Thornton's pamphlet on steamboats. 8vo. 73. A covered keel-boat, or barge, of the sort propelled by the use of poles. Sm. W. Amer. c. 1850...... 269 74. The flatboat; also called Ohio boat or Kentucky boat. - 271 75. A helmsman on a flatboat.-O. Dr. by Joshua Shaw. 273 76. Travellers dancing on top of a flatboat. 4to. C. 275 77. Sample page from a chart-book used by flatboat travellers. 278 78. 79. Text of directions accompanying the preceding chart.... 279 c. 1810 283 80. A broadhorn on the Ohio River.-S. F. Col. Lith. 285 81. Small flatboat, equipped with a sail. — 12mo. S. Amer. 289 82. Large flatboat: also called Orleans boat or Mississippi 83. boat. Sm. F. Lith. Col. German. c. 1856...... Mississippi flatboat with superstructure of lumber. — Sm. W. Amer. c. 1860.... 290 292 84. Arks of the Susquehanna River. 4to. S. Amer. Sailing barge of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. - Sm. хххіі 301 |