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carrying place

carrying place

noun

  1. another name for portage


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This day we rowed 20 miles and passed a short carrying place.

When the Jesuit missionaries came here, they found it the great Indian carrying-place.

When he had lived with Gunna-go-let three months, she packed up and moved her wigwam to the carrying-place, now Lewiston.

When he had been at the carrying-place about a year and a half, he saw a large party of captives brought in from the settlements.

We then moved from the north end of the glades, and encamped at the carrying-place.

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