Its upper waters are separated by only a short transitable canoe portage of 7 m.
The portage on the eastern side terminates at the Cashpajah river 22 m.
Down there at Portage they've treated you mean, mean as dirt.
Not far away from the house, on the way to Portage la Drome, but a little distance from the road, was a crevasse, and towards this she sped, for once before an accident had happened there.
Mr. John De Sousa, accountant at the post, took charge of them and of us, and the work of loading a great portage sleigh went on apace.
This river heads near the sources of the Saint Croix; a short portage leads from the waters of one river to the other.
The river Chicktahawk, which falls into the St. John near the Presque-Isle, runs near a branch of the Miramichi; a short portage connects the route.
A short portage leads from this stream to the waters communicating with the river Miramichi.
From the head of Lake Attikonak a steep and rockyportage of less than a mile leads to Burnt Lake, which is drained into the St Lawrence by the Romaine river.
It was at this portage that their enemies had been wont to surprise them.
Champlain did not explore the river further, but he ascertained a few days later that the Indians used the river in their journeys to Tadousac, making but a short portage on the way.
Over this portage the boat must needs be hauled foot by foot, overland.
Indian Jake explained that he had picked the berries one day when they were making a portage along the Nascaupee River.
The roads were somewhat better than between New Portage and Wooster, though more hilly.
John Hammond, who was left behind at New Portage in consequence of breaking his wagon, also joined us again.
Near New Portage it is low and to all appearance must be quite unhealthful.
Benjamin Butterfield, who left the camp at Talmadge, Portage county, found his way into camp again in the course of the day.
Passed this day through New Portage on the Ohio canal, which we crossed two or three miles below that place, and encamped on the farm of Mr. Bockmans, in Chippeway township, county of Wayne.
At the Dalles is another short portage of twelve miles, past a portion of the river which, though less grand than its plunge through the Cascade Mountains, is far more unique and wonderful.
Between the lower cascades and the upper cascades is a portage of six miles, past fierce waters, in which a boat could scarcely live.
We used to come up to this portage in boats, an' then pack everything on horses an' ride across.
The excessive transmission and portage time was especially irritating in communications, shipment of priority cargo, and human travel across distances from bodies orbiting along on opposite sides of the Sun.
On their return journey they ascended the Illinois river as far as Lake Peoria; they then crossed the portage to Lake Michigan, and in 1675 Marquette founded a mission at the Indian town of Kaskaskia, near the present Utica, Ill.
And there was one bad stretch where in two days they covered nine miles, being compelled to turn their backs three times on the river and to portage sled and outfit over the mountains.
We remained at New Portage until the 6th when we were joined by the Prophet and eighty-five more men.
The Prophet asked those who were ready, to go as far as New Portage and there await the arrival of those who would follow later.
The series of letters referred to in the text above were nine in number, and first appeared in the Ohio Star, published at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage county.
He moved from Pomfret, Vermont, to Hiram, Portage county, Ohio.
Hiram was in Portage county, and about thirty miles south-easterly from Kirtland.
That is the portage to Marble Cove, or Indiantown, above the falls.
This no doubt was the commencement of the famous portage by which bands of savages in ancient days took their way westward to devastate the settlements of eastern New England.
In another edition of his narrative Cadillac says that Madawaska lake and river turn northward so those who journey from Acadia to Quebec go across the portage from the lake to the River St. Lawrence, opposite Tadoussac.
This portage is shown in Champlain's plan of Saint John.
From the River du Loup by a portageof 18 leagues to Lake Temiscouata.
From Jemsec, leaving the River St. John and traversing Dagidemoech [Washa demoak] lake ascending by the river of the same name, thence by a portage of 6 leagues to the River Petkoudiak.
A little below what is known as Schlosser Dock stood the French fort guarding this end of their old portage path.
The route from Lewiston to Port Day was evidently the common portage until after the War of 1812 when the Canadian path was opened.
Here, from Lewiston and Queenston to Chippewa and Port Day (to use modern names) ran the two most famous portage paths of the continent.
Frenchman's Landing is the modern name for the cove below the Old Stone Chimney where was the terminus of the earliest portage path guarded by the block-house known as the first Little Fort Niagara.
He had come by the portage path from the east, and had seen no marks of passage that were less than a week old.
I sent him over the portage yesterday with orders to explore some leagues to the south.
Then there was a girding up of the loins, a getting out of tump-lines and canvas packs, and the long portage was begun.
The birch-barks were repitched, and every man found out what he was expected to portage and do about camp.
A portage is a place where you have to carry your boat around some obstruction.
They were six days, history says, in making the portage from Lake Erie which we make on the trolley in a little over an hour," explained Mr. Emerson.
The next station was Manyanga, a destination indeed, for here is a formidable cataract, which defies the light steamers of the expedition, and there will have to be another tedious portage to the open waters of Stanley Pool.
Their knowledge of the intricate channels had enabled them to pilot the Arab canoes down over the obstructions and return them in the same way, the owners making the portage afoot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
