In them two long timbers, or skids, were laid andiron-wise for the reception of the piles of logs which would be dragged from the fallen trees.

They were called skidways.
Then finally the season's cut began.
The men who were to fell the trees, Radway distributed along one boundary of a "forty." They were instructed to move forward across the forty in a straight line, felling every pine tree over eight inches in diameter.

While the "saw-gangs," three in number, prepared to fell the first trees, other men, called "swampers," were busy cutting and clearing of roots narrow little trails down through the forest from the pine to the skidway at the edge of the logging road.

The trails were perhaps three feet wide, and marvels of smoothness, although no attempt was made to level mere inequalities of the ground.

They were called travoy roads (French "travois").