 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks:...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil. I have said thus much on the engines which have been constructed among us for the purpose of navigating... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 492 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks: but the cutting and landing will be almost as great an evil. ' "./ haw; said thus much on the engines which have been constructed... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks ;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." In speaking of what had been done in this country prior to the running of his boats, it would be great... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - 1857 - 470 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel, may not for some years exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." These oracular opinions were expressed with great flippancy, but it is evident that Mr. Latrobe had... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - 1857 - 440 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel, may not for some years exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks ;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." These oracular opinions were expressed with great flippancy, but it is evident that Mr. Latrobe had... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 682 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil. Scientific men and amateurs all agreed in pronouncing Fulton's scheme impracticable ; but he went on... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1884 - 652 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks ;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil. Scientific men and amateurs all agreed in pronouncing Fulton's scheme impracticable; but he went on... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - 1888 - 532 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not, for some years, exist on the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." At that time practical and profitable steamboats were much nearer a tangible reality than the writer... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not for some years exist in the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks ;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." Within four years the steamboat was running, and robe was its warmest friend. The dispute was a contest... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 sider
...That founded on the expense and weight of the fuel may not for some years exist in the Mississippi, where there is a redundance of wood on the banks ;...cutting and loading will be almost as great an evil." Within four years the steamboat was running, and Latrobe was its warmest friend. The dispute was a... | |
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... especially on the rapid waters of the Mississippi, and who would feel themselves almost offended at the expression of an opposite opinion. And perhaps some of the objections against it may be obviated. That founded on the expense and weight of the... 
