These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids. |
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We landed upstream and portaged the heavy Fiberglass canoes past the group while they snorted, perhaps in amusement. |
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Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps. |
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So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario. |
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Many Indian and Arab traders chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way. |
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In the spring of 1649 Khabarov set off at his own expense up the Olyokma River, then its branch, the Tungur and portaged to the Shilka River. |
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He returned up the Lena until it became too rocky and shallow, and portaged to the Angara River. |
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All of the locks are derelict, but the course can still be used by canoes and light craft, which can be portaged around the locks. |
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For many years, a dispute about tolls meant that goods travelling through Birmingham had to be portaged from boats in one canal to boats in the other. |
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From there, ships had to be portaged to the Dnieper River near Gnezdovo. |
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