A graphic English writer, Dr.W. H. H.dson, gives the following enthusiastic description of the little tobogganist of his native woodlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

The toboggan is to the hurlie what the sled is to the carriage; it is a hurlie upon runners; and if for a grating road you substitute a long declivity of beaten snow, you can imagine the giddy career of the tobogganist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Travel] Reference