 Having employed much time, money, and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and...  Essays, Biographical and Critical: Or, Studies of Character - Page 130by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1857 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1808 - 356 pages
...Missisippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprize of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...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 - 400 pages
...give a cheap and quick conveyance to the mer176 chandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure, in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention," fyc. Soon after this successful... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...merchandize on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasure to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although...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... | |
 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 552 pages
...Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprize of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...advantage that my country will derive from the invention." It is not very creditable to the spirit of enterprize, for which Great Britain and the United States,... | |
 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 516 pages
...Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprize of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal...immense advantage that my country will derive from tfie invention." It is not very creditable to the spirit of enterprize, for which Great Britain and... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1834 - 450 pages
...will give a cheap and quick conveyance to merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures...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
...they call philosophers and* projectors. merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures...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
...give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures...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
...will give a cheap and quick conveyance to merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures...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... | |
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