A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Parte2,Volumen1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - 304 páginas |
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... Western country , if you have a cigar in your mouth , a man will come up- " Beg pardon , stranger , " and whips your cigar out of your mouth , lights his own , and then returns your's . I thought it rather cool at first , but as I found ...
... Western country , if you have a cigar in your mouth , a man will come up- " Beg pardon , stranger , " and whips your cigar out of your mouth , lights his own , and then returns your's . I thought it rather cool at first , but as I found ...
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... Western . British United Liverpool . Queen . President . Kingdom . Extreme length feet 236 223 275 265 Ditto ...... under deck . 12 216 245 238 206 " " Ditto .. keel .. Power of engines Diameter of cylinders inches 73 75 Total weight of ...
... Western . British United Liverpool . Queen . President . Kingdom . Extreme length feet 236 223 275 265 Ditto ...... under deck . 12 216 245 238 206 " " Ditto .. keel .. Power of engines Diameter of cylinders inches 73 75 Total weight of ...
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... Western waters , the excitement is fully equal to that attendant upon the departure of a Liver- pool packet . - About ten o'clock A.M. the ill- fated steamer pushed off upon the turbid current of the Mississippi , as a swan upon the ...
... Western waters , the excitement is fully equal to that attendant upon the departure of a Liver- pool packet . - About ten o'clock A.M. the ill- fated steamer pushed off upon the turbid current of the Mississippi , as a swan upon the ...
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... western steam - boat , that the boilers are entirely above the first deck , and that when the fires are well kept up for any length of time , the heat is almost insupportable . Were it not for the draft occasioned by the speed of the ...
... western steam - boat , that the boilers are entirely above the first deck , and that when the fires are well kept up for any length of time , the heat is almost insupportable . Were it not for the draft occasioned by the speed of the ...
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... western rivers , in regard to vessels passing westerly , the largest proportion were emigrants . They were mostly deck pas- sengers , many of whom were poor Germans , ignorant of any language but their own , and the larger portion ...
... western rivers , in regard to vessels passing westerly , the largest proportion were emigrants . They were mostly deck pas- sengers , many of whom were poor Germans , ignorant of any language but their own , and the larger portion ...
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