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of wood knees, we use malleable iron brace from wales to 

 seat, which is also listened on with stove bolts. They are 

 fitted with a good pair of ash oars and jfli?|fiSi;5 

 malleable iron row-locks, and are seated 

 for three persons, and have three coats 

 of paint on them. They make fine-look- 

 ing, steady, strong and very serviceable 

 boats for nearly all uses. 



" Those made of basswood are cheap- 

 est: the thirteen -feet boat costing $20, 

 and the fifteen-feet boat $5 more ; the 

 pine comes next, $25 to $30 ; and the 

 cedar, which is the lightest in weight, is 

 the highest in price, from $35 to $40, for 

 the two sizes respectively." 



We are the proud owner of one of 

 these latter, and, with one of the patent 

 umbrella fixtures secured to the seat for 

 shade, we ask nothing better in its line, 

 either with or without the rudder; the 

 latter, by the way, is an "extra" and 

 costs $2. This cedar boat is so light 

 that it can be readily placed in a wagon 

 and taken from lake to lake. 



None of these boats weigh over one 

 hundred and ten pounds, an item of no 

 small importance when freight is to be 

 considered, as the rate per hundred to 

 Jacksonville from Waukegan is, at this 

 present writing, only $5, and is likely to be less rather than 

 more in the future. With such a boat as this, fishing and 

 boating become a genuine pleasure ; for who does not love 

 the SAvift, easy flight over the water of a light, graceful bat- 

 teau, that skims along with scarcely a touch of the oars? 



