Word: transportable
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...consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large lakes, a sailing canoe of the Nautilus or Rob Roy types, a good sea-boat and one easy to manage, will not aurally be selected. These canoes are somewhat heavy and are not easy to transport on land as it is not supposed that there will be much need of that kind of work. On the contrary, if the canoe is intended for inland use on lakes, rivers and for general service, lightness is of primary importance, as the owner will find after he has "packed...
...ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred and fifty miles to the north. Guarding the approaches in front of Grant was Pemberton...
...good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet...
...nauseam. Those fond of this rather material transport will find plenty to satisfy them...
...your leave, readers, I'll transport you in imagination to a place which differs in many respects from this; where the winters are long but pleasant, and the summers are short and hot; where they say the man lived who remarked, "We have very good weather up our way, except that the sleighing is rather poor for a couple of months in the year...