They first blazed their trails into the black forests and left traces of their work in the names of portages and little villages.
他们首先在黑森林中开辟了道路,并以搬运工和小村庄的名义留下了他们的工作痕迹。
美国历史
Pennsylvania, alarmed by the advantages conferred on New York by this enterprise, began her system of canals and portages from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, completing the last link in 1834.
The traders cut their way through forest trails and laid out the routes through lake and stream and over portages for the settlers and their families from the states " back East."
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Portage or portaging is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water. A place where this carrying occurs is also called a portage.
Early French explorers in New France and French Louisiana encountered many rapids and cascades. The Native Americans carried their canoes over land to avoid river obstacles.