I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.

The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.

We wish we had the Fonzie touch — give it a little kick and voila, it's working. Unfortunately, printers don't like to be kicked.

Incidentally (and digressingly), the word “wreck” has a certain singular significance in mushing circles, if you've been around the game as long as I have.