The Rambler in North America, MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII, Հատոր 2Harper & Brothers, 1835 |
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The Rambler in North America, MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII, Հատոր 2 Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII. Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
The Rambler in North America, MDCCCXXXII.-MDCCCXXXIII. Charles Joseph Latrobe Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1836 |
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Էջ 214 - IT was but the other day I was in company with a gentlemanly foreigner — a Prussian; acute, reasonable, and polite, travelling for his instruction and amusement, to see with his own eyes, and to hear with his own ears. The conversation turned upon the difference of the criminal law in our respective countries, and the mode of procedure in criminal cases. Two things had struck him with reference to that of England ; first, the weight which we...
Էջ 84 - ... the foot of it. Here they lay, keeping watch on deck during the long autumnal night; listening to the sound of the waters which roared and gurgled horribly around them, and hearing from time to time the rushing earth slide from the shore, and the commotion as the falling mass of earth and trees was swallowed up by the river. The...
Էջ 81 - The complete success attending the experiments in steam navigation made on the Hudson and the adjoining waters previous to the year 1809, turned the attention of the principal projectors to the idea of its application on the Western Rivers ; and in the month of April of that year, Mr. Roosevelt of New York, pursuant to an agreement with Chancellor Livingston and Mr. Fulton, visited those rivers, with the purpose of forming an opinion whether they admitted of steam navigation or not. At this time...
Էջ 84 - And as they sat on deck, they ever and anon heard a rushing sound and violent splash, and saw large portions of the shore tearing away from the land and falling into the river. It was, as my informant said, ' an awful day; so still, that you could have heard a pin drop on the deck.
Էջ 82 - Late at night on the fourth day after quitting Pittsburgh, -they arrived in safety at Louisville, having been but seventy hours descending upwards of seven hundred miles. The novel appearance of the vessel, and the fearful rapidity with which it made its passage over the broad reaches of the river, excited a mixture of terror and surprise among many of the settlers on the banks, whom the rumor of such an invention had never reached...
Էջ 83 - Hitherto, nothing extraordinary had been perceived. The following day they pursued their monotonous voyage in those vast solitudes. The weather was observed to be oppressively hot ; the air misty, still and dull ; and though the sun was visibly like a glowing ball of copper, his rays hardly shed more than a mournful twilight on the surface of the water.
Էջ 82 - Orleans, and as his report was favourable, it was decided to build a boat at the former town. This was done under his direction, and in the course of 1811 the first boat was launched on the waters of the Ohio. It was called the
Էջ 83 - I have heard that the general impression among the good Kentuckians was, that the comet had fallen into the Ohio ; but this does not rest upon the same foundation as the other facts, which I lay before you, and which I may at once say, I had directly from the lips of the parties themselves. The small depth of water in the Rapids prevented the boat from pursuing her voyage immediately, and during the consequent detention of three weeks in the upper part of the Ohio, several trips were successfully...
Էջ 82 - Baker the engineer, Andrew Jack the pilot, and six hands, with a few domestics, formed her whole burden. There were no wood-yards at that time, and constant delays were unavoidable. When, as related, Mr. R. had gone down the river to reconnoitre, he had discovered two beds of coal, about one hundred and twenty miles below the Rapids at Louisville, and now took tools to work them, intending to load the vessel with the coal and to employ it as fuel, instead of constantly detaining the boat while wood...
Էջ 60 - Niagara would bring disappointment, or to feel justified in doubting whether they have any imagination or eye for natural scenery at all. How blank the world must be, to them, of objects of natural interest! What can they expect to see? As to expectations, ours were excited and warm, and I shall never forget the real anxiety with which we looked out, on our ascent from Lewiston, for the appearance of the object of our 1833 visit.