Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels Maine Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Men towing a log. near the middle of the stream, but so far distant that Marco could scarcely make out what they were doing. The steam mill where they were go... more »ing to take the log to be sawed, was round behind a point of land, so that Marco could see nothing but the tall chimney, and the smoke issuing from it, behind the trees. There was a road leading along the bank of the river, at .a little distance from the water. There was a very smooth and level beach between the river and the road. TOWIN3 THE LOO. The beach. Marco goes forward. The decks. Marco was just wishing that he could go and take a walk upon this beach, when his eye caught the figures of two men who seemed to be at work there. Forester said that they were rolling-logs off into the water. These men were so remote that they looked very small. There were a great many logs floating down toward the steamboat, on the current of the river. By this time the men with the log disappeared from Marco's view, behind a part of the steamboat which now came in the way, in consequence of a change in the direction in which the steamboat was going. Marco, who wished to watch the whole proceeding, left Forester, and ran forward, in hopes that he could get another view of the men in the boat. He found, 'however, that they were proceeding so rapidly toward the shore, that he was fast losing sight of them ; and then he concluded to go forward to the bows of the steamboat, thinking that perhaps there might be other logs coming down the river, with men after them in boats. When he reached the bows, Marco found the deck encumbered with cables, and anchors, and heavy boxes of freight, which made it difficult for him to find his way to a good place Beauty of the river. The ripple. for a view. He finally reached a place ...« less