“… rail-shooting can be enjoyed in the Ma’sh, as well as hunting reed-birds, but only at high tide as the boat must be pushed over the reeds, and… the flat bottomed skiff is predominant in the region.” (From Thomas Eakins, Who Painted. by Margaret McHenry, 1946. Retrieved from https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mchenry/eakins/eakins.html)