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| 8 | 216 | View more quotes about once">Once the ropes are secured the wagons may be rolled directly onto the pier. |
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| 8 | 213 | The two extra crewmen, standing on the deck, threw great looped ropes over heavy iron mooring cleats fastened in the pier. |
| 8 | 214 | Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
| 8 | 215 | There is no rear railing on the barges and the barge deck matches the pier in height. |
| 8 | 216 | Once the ropes are secured the wagons may be rolled directly onto the pier. |
| 8 | 217 | A man came forward and untied the straps leading to the nose rings of the bosk from the bosk ring on the deck. |
| 8 | 218 | He led them back toward the stern of the barge and onto the pier. |
| 8 | 219 | The broad circles of wood on which the wagons were mounted were now rotated, so that the wagon tongues faced the pier. |