A Book about Travelling, Past and PresentWilliam P. Nimmo, 1877 - 608 pages |
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... Steam Navigation- Continental Inventors - Miller and Symington CHAPTER II . 343-361 Paddle Steamers - The first American Steamer - The " Comet " -The Huli and Engine sixty years after - Spread of Steam Navigation - The first Sea - going ...
... Steam Navigation- Continental Inventors - Miller and Symington CHAPTER II . 343-361 Paddle Steamers - The first American Steamer - The " Comet " -The Huli and Engine sixty years after - Spread of Steam Navigation - The first Sea - going ...
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... steam navigation on the Hudson River , and as a man of distinction in the line of mechani- cal invention . " Associated with Union College for many years was a famous vehicle known as the Three - Wheeled Chariot , ' in which the Doctor ...
... steam navigation on the Hudson River , and as a man of distinction in the line of mechani- cal invention . " Associated with Union College for many years was a famous vehicle known as the Three - Wheeled Chariot , ' in which the Doctor ...
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... steam engines and daguerreotypes , it might appear strange that an invention so simple in itself as a canal - lock ... navigation what it now is . Probably the conclusion arrived at by some writers is the correct one , that the lock was ...
... steam engines and daguerreotypes , it might appear strange that an invention so simple in itself as a canal - lock ... navigation what it now is . Probably the conclusion arrived at by some writers is the correct one , that the lock was ...
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... ship canals , and probably , * had that system been in the smallest degree anticipated to ... navigation is concerned , is brought under our notice in a recently ... steam railway in Scotland . It is curious to remark that the man who did ...
... ship canals , and probably , * had that system been in the smallest degree anticipated to ... navigation is concerned , is brought under our notice in a recently ... steam railway in Scotland . It is curious to remark that the man who did ...
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... steam for the propulsion of canal boats , and in the history of steam navigation , in a subsequent section of this volume , this will be more fully referred to . It is , however , of interest , under this branch of travelling , to ...
... steam for the propulsion of canal boats , and in the history of steam navigation , in a subsequent section of this volume , this will be more fully referred to . It is , however , of interest , under this branch of travelling , to ...
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Page 6 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Page 260 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 322 - Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours, peace to happy BRITAIN brings, These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Page 439 - And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there...
Page 94 - A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.
Page 101 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand Jme, and would add something to the conversation.
Page 367 - ... heard, the crews (if what was said in the newspapers of the time be true) in some instances shrunk beneath their decks from the terrific sight, and left their vessels to go on shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from the approaches of the horrible monster, which was marching on the tides and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.
Page 35 - Where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad, The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Page 454 - ... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.
Page 111 - Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. But, as it does not belong to me to punish criminals, I will only take upon me...