“Sawyers, are likewise bodies of trees fixed less perpendicularly in the river, and rather of a less size, yielding to the pressure of the current, disappearing and appearing by turns above water, similar to the motion of a saw-mill saw, from which they have taken their name.
“Wooden-Islands, are places where by some cause or other, large quantities of drift wood, has through time, been arrested and matted together in different parts of the river.”
[47] Harris’s Tour (1805), p. 38.
[48] Harris’s Pittsburgh Business Directory for the year 1837, pp. 178, 287.
[49] Id., p. 277.
[50] The American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 271.
[51] Historic Highways of America, vol. i, p. 57.
[52] See note 55.
[53] Cassedy’s History of Louisville, pp. 64-67.
[54] American Pioneer, vol. ii, p. 63.