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Title: American wild-fowl shooting : containing full and accurate descriptions of the haunts, habits, and methods of shooting wild-fowl, particularly those of the western states of America ...
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Long, Joseph W
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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of withstanding any weather towhich the Western hunter is likely to be ex-posed—such as 1 myself have made use of morethan any others, and which, I am satisfied, is thebest shape for general use on Western waters,and not too large for novices anywhere. Now, the building of a paddle-boat is not sosimple an undertaking as many of my readersmay suppose; in fact, it is almost an art, andsimply giving the dimensions of the finished boatproves of little value, for, not knowing how toset about the building of it, the novice isas far from its possession as though he hadnever heard of it. I shall therefore en-deavor to so explain the modus operandias to enable any one having a sufficient know-ledge of the use of tools to build the boat asit should be; and, to make my instructions moreclear, shall refer my readers to the drawing onthe following page. The materials—clear white pine for sides,scats, bulkhead, and bottom, and straight-grained white oak for stem, stern-post, ribs, 80 EQUIPMENT.
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INSIDE VIEW OF BOAT. a—Stem. &—Rib. c—Stem, showing attachment. (Z—Mud-stickor pusher, e—Oar-lock seat. BOATS AND BOAT-BUILDING. 81 knees, etc.—being collected, the first thing usu-ally done is to get into shape the stem andstern-post, the angles of which may be ascer-tained by drawing an isosceles triangle, which shallhave for its base the width of the bulkhead at top(18;- inches), and for its sides the distance fromfront side of bulkhead to extreme point of bow (27inches) ; the angle at apex of the triangle will thenbe that proper for stem. The stern-post willneed to be a trifle more acute. Each shouldmeasure 4^ inches through from front to back,and be cut as per figure, 2;- inches back fromapex, and i inch deep, to receive the side-boards.The side-boards, which should be 16 feet long,16J inches wide, and from ; to ;- inch thick,are next shaped in the following manner: At11 inches back from bow, and 10 inches for-ward from stern-end, measured on the underedge, cut of

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