carrying place
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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This day we arrived to the second carrying place, called Skowhegan falls.
From An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775 by Stocking, Abner
To the last, the Miamis clung to their old carrying place.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore
At last we reached the four-mile carrying place, from the Dead River to the stream that leads into Lake Megantic.
From The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 by Watson, Henry C.
The stream was low, in spite of heavy rains that had drenched them on the carrying place.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
This carrying place has heretofore proved, in a great degree, the subsistence of your younger brothers.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Barce, Elmore
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