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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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present field artillery is transported bodilyon sledges, so as to follow the army on ski; andthe doctors, with their assistants, accompany theregiments with first aid necessaries, and am-bulance sleds mounted on ski runners. It is acurious sight during the maneuvers to see pros-trate wounded men being hauled swiftly overXhe frozen wastes to the nearest military post orcamp. The medical officers who haul these ambulancesleds are furnished with snowshoes instead ofski, for it has been found that these enable themto drag the sled more evenly and with less riskto the sick or wounded. It should be borne inmind that while ski, for speed and comfort, arethe superior of the two, they are in certain con-ditions more awkward to manage and give lessreliable foothold and grip on the surface thansnowshoes. Mounted on these latter, the am-bulance men can haul the wounded up the steep-est slopes without any risk of the sled and itshelpless burden breaking away and slippingdown a precipitous incline.
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fasten on ski—men getting ready to march at the word of command. THE REDEVELOPMENT OF AN OLD STATE BY SYLVESTER BAXTER. IN one of the old States of the Union tliere isa curious conjunction of long-settled con-ditions with wilderness and frontier. Maine wasone of the earliest regions to attract immigra-tion from the older parts of New England. Themovement set in shortly after the Revolutionary-War. Maine was then a Massachusetts prov-ince. But in recent years it has had a namefor emigration rather than immigration. Threehundred thousand natives of Maine are said tobe living in other parts of the United States.Nevertheless, something has offset this tenden-cy. Maine lost population in the decade from1860 to 1870, doubtless an effect of the CivilWar. Since then the State, as a whole, hassteadily grown. In the new AVest we see thewilderness developing, rich virgin lands comingunder cultivation, busy new cities humming withindustry. In this old New England State wehave the same phenomena

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