 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...appearance and progressive motion of this ignivomous ' monster' on the toater, is interesting and amusing. ' She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood lor fuel,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...appearance and progressive motion of this ignivomous ' monster' on the water, is interesting and amusing. ' She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | 1818 - 606 pages
...and progressive motion of this ignivonious ' monster' oil the water, is interesting and amusing. * She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating ihe river, when she was making her passage. The first steam boats, as others yet do, used dry pine... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 pages
...ardour of the * Its first appearance on these waters, is thus described by the biographer of Fulton. " She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 356 pages
...Robinson. * Its first appearance on these waters, is thus described by the biographer of Fulton. " She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steamboats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 234 pages
...first appearance are thus described, in a quotation made by Mr. Partington from an American work : — "She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pages
...her, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke." " She had the most terrific appearance from other vessels, which were navigating the river when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1830 - 228 pages
...first appearance are thus decribed, in a quotation made by Mr. Partington from an American work : — " She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel,... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...night, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flame and smoke. She had the most terrific appearance from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, (in America,) used dry pine... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 200 pages
...and 173 of Colden's Life of Fulton, as quoted in the London Quarterly Review, No. 19 : " The steamer had the most terrific appearance from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steamboats, as others yet do, used dry pine-wood for fuel,... | |
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She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels which were navigating the river, when she was making her passage. The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel, which sends forth a column of ignited vapour many feet above... 
