 It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been...  Three Years in North America - Página 47de James Stuart - 1833 - 544 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1808
...answer my expectations. It will give a quick and cheap conveyance to merchandize on the Missisippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...advantage that my country will derive from the invention. However, I will not admit that it is half so important as the torpedo system of defence and attack... | |
 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 371 páginas
...Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen: and although the prospect of personal...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure, in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention," &c. * « Soon after this... | |
 | 1833
...Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasure to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...advantage that my country will derive from the invention." We recommend the perusal of this letter to all those who, like the ridiculers of Fulton, must needs... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1834
...Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...pleasure in reflecting with you on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention." Thus the first voyage, and that perfectly successful, was... | |
 | 1835
...Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...pleasure in reflecting with you on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention." Thus the first voyage, and that perfectly successful, was... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 482 páginas
...Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention," &c. Soon after this successful... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1856
...Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention," &o. (The engine of this boat... | |
 | 1841
...other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention."* Soon after this event, the... | |
 | 1841
...other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely moro pleasure in reffecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention."*... | |
 | 1828
...country"" »• An(1 although the prospect ot personal emolument has heen some indncement to me, yet I (eel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting with you on...advantage that my country will derive from the invention. However I will not admit that it is half so important as the torpedo system ol defence and attack;... | |
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