 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 - Page 37by James Stuart - 1833 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1808 - 356 pages
...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 - Naval architects - 1817 - 406 pages
...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 - 480 pages
...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 - Art - 1834 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...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 - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...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 - Industrial arts - 1856 - 860 pages
...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... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 604 pages
...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 - 462 pages
...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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