ENp. 7
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p. 7-655- neighborhood of zero is not to be supported by many people but must often be encountered on the prairies. Many persons have lost their lives in this encounter; and it is found to be especially dangerous on those roads which most abound in licensed taverns: The track of the road in winter can never be smooth and well beaten as in the timbered land. The track made by your sleigh is soon filled with drifted snow; other sleighs following in the same track beat down this additional snow. Hence every sleigh has to break for itself a new track which is a very great inconvenience, as all know who have attempted it. The result of this process is that in a short time, if there is much travel along the road it becomes a high ridge of har beaten snow, just wide enough for your team with soft snow banks on each side. | p. 7-655- neighborhood of zero is not to be supported by many people but must often be encountered on the prairies. Many persons have lost their lives in this encounter; and it is found to be especially dangerous on those roads which most abound in licensed taverns: The track of the road in winter can never be smooth and well beaten as in the timbered land. |
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