 The whole is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse ; the seat is in the middle; it carries but one person, or, if a second goes into it to be wafted over a river, he stands behind the rower, leaning on his shoulders.  Transactions of the Albany Institute - Page 256by Albany Institute - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Train - 1814 - 234 pages
...P. 116. The Courach is in shape oval, near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel runs from head to the stern ; a few ribs are placed across the keel, and a ring of pliable wood round the lip of it. The "whole machine is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse. The seat... | |
 | Lachlan Shaw - 1827 - 540 pages
...alveis, quos cirpundant ambitione tergorum bubulorum," a short, but exaet, description of the Courach. It is in shape oval, near three feet broad, and four...keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of it. The whole machine is covered with the rough hide of an Ox or a Horse, — the seat is in the middle,... | |
 | 1864 - 862 pages
...'It is in shape oval, 128 Modern Coracle. near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel nine from the head to the stern ; a few ribs are placed...keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of the machina The whole U covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse ; the seat is in the middle; it... | |
 | 1868 - 854 pages
...Shaw, whose History of Moray was publishBed in 1775, when the C. had become rire, thns "describes it : 'It is in shape oval, near three feet broad, and four...carries but one person, or, if a second goes into it to be wafted over a river, he stands behind the rower, leaning on his shoulders. In floating timber,... | |
 | 1868 - 858 pages
...published in 1775, when the C. had become rare, thus describes it: 'It is in shape oval, Modern Coracle. near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel...carries but one person, or, if a second goes into it to be wafted over a river, he stands behind the rower, leaning on his shoulders. In floating timber,... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 852 pages
...published in 1775, when the C. had become rare, thus describee it : 'It is in shape oval, Modern Coracle. near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel...carries but one person, or, if a second goes into it to be wafted over a river, he stands behind the rower, leaning on his shoulders. In floating timber,... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...in sliapc oval, near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel runs from the head to the stem ; a few ribs are placed across the keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of it. The whole machine is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse, the seat is in the middle,... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1875 - 378 pages
...in shape oval, near three feet broad, and four long ; a small keel runs from the head to the stem ; a few ribs are placed across the keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of it. The whole machine is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse, the seat is in the middle,... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1881 - 320 pages
...describes them as in shape oval, 4 feet long and 3 broad, a small keel from head to stern, a few ribs across the keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of it, the whole covered with the rough hide of an ox or horse. The rower sits on a transverse seat in... | |
 | Lachlan Shaw - 1882 - 496 pages
...bubulorum,"*ashort, but exact, description of the Courach. It is in shape oval, near 3 feet broad, and 4 long; a small keel runs from the head to the stern;...keel, and a ring of pliable wood around the lip of it. The whole machine is covered with the rough hide of an ox or a horse; the seat is in the middle,... | |
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