...ty. Sometimes 15 or 20 boats would be detained at one of these favorite resorts, and a jolly crowd fraternized in the primitive bar-room. The temperance sentiment had not yet taken a firm hold in New England . Flip was the high-toned beverage of those days; but black-strap, a compound of rum and molasses, sold at 3 cents a glass, was the particular vanity of the boatmen. In the smaller taverns a barrel ...