 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 pages
...the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke. She had the most terrific appearance, from ether vessels which were navigating the river, when she...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 the flue, and whenever... | |
 | 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
...and progressive motion of this ignivomous ' monster' on the toater, is interesting and amusing. ' She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels...river, when she was making her passage. The first steam boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood lor fuel, which sends forth a column of ignited vapour... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...and progressive motion of this iguivomous ' monster' on the water, is interesting and amusing. ' She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels...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... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...on the water, is interesting and amusing. ' She had the most terrific appearance, from other Tessels 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 pages
...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...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 the flue, and whenever... | |
 | 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...passage. The first steamboats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel, which sends forth a column of ignited vapour many feet above the flue, and whenever... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 222 pages
...appearance are thus described, in a quotation made by Mr. Partington from an American work : — "She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels...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 the flue, and whenever... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 234 pages
...appearance are thus described, in a quotation made by Mr. Partington from an American work : — "She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels...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 the flue, and whenever... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pages
...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,...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 the flue, and whenever... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1830 - 228 pages
...appearance are thus decribed, in a quotation made by Mr. Partington from an American work : — " She had the most terrific appearance, from other vessels...The first steam-boats, as others yet do, used dry pine wood for fuel, which sends forth a column of ignited vapor, many feet 161 above the flue, and... | |
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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... 
