Hudson River and the Hudson River Railroad: With a Complete Map, and Wood Cut Views of the Principal Objects of Interest Upon the LineBradbury & Guild, 1851 - 50 sider |
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... ROAD WITH A COMPLETE MAP , AND WOOD CUT VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF INTEREST UPON THE LINE . NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY W M. C. LOCKE & CO . 24 BEEKMAN STREET . BOSTON : BRADBURY & GUILD , 120 WASHINGTON STREET . 1851 . AND THE ...
... ROAD WITH A COMPLETE MAP , AND WOOD CUT VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF INTEREST UPON THE LINE . NEW YORK : PUBLISHED BY W M. C. LOCKE & CO . 24 BEEKMAN STREET . BOSTON : BRADBURY & GUILD , 120 WASHINGTON STREET . 1851 . AND THE ...
Side 10
... road could be built through the Highlands , at anything like a reasonable expense , it could never compete with the river steamboats , noted as they were for elegance , safety , and speed . But the fallacy of this belief has been ...
... road could be built through the Highlands , at anything like a reasonable expense , it could never compete with the river steamboats , noted as they were for elegance , safety , and speed . But the fallacy of this belief has been ...
Side 11
... road is thus protected . At Verplanck's Point , forty miles from New York , the track is nearly two miles from the river , but in no other place does it vary as much as one mile from the water's edge . THE GRADES of the road ...
... road is thus protected . At Verplanck's Point , forty miles from New York , the track is nearly two miles from the river , but in no other place does it vary as much as one mile from the water's edge . THE GRADES of the road ...
Side 12
... road deserves especial mention . We refer to the system of signal flags , introduced to secure safety from accidents in running the trains . Flag men are stationed upon every mile of the road , generally at the curves , or upon a slight ...
... road deserves especial mention . We refer to the system of signal flags , introduced to secure safety from accidents in running the trains . Flag men are stationed upon every mile of the road , generally at the curves , or upon a slight ...
Side 13
... road passes through the yard of the State Prison , directly in rear of the main building . The track is several feet below the yard . Two arches of brick , of twenty - four feet span and six hundred feet in length , are here constructed ...
... road passes through the yard of the State Prison , directly in rear of the main building . The track is several feet below the yard . Two arches of brick , of twenty - four feet span and six hundred feet in length , are here constructed ...
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affording Albany Anthony's Nose aqueduct Arnold ascend Auburn Auburn prison banks beautiful boat BOSTON Breakneck Hill British building built cadets Canal Carmansville cars Catskill Clinton command constructed Creek crossing Croton Croton Aqueduct Croton River directly opposite dollars east elevated embankment excavation extending falls feet per mile Fishkill Fort Putnam forty miles Greenbush ground half a mile Harlem River Haverstraw Bays Highlands Hudson River Railroad hundred feet iron Isaac Van Wart junction laid land Long Island marble miles in length mountain narrow nearly Newburg Palisades passengers passing Paulding Peekskill pile bridge pipe Poughkeepsie prison rails reservoir rising road route shore short distance side Sing Sing situated sixteen miles spot station steamboats Stony Point stream street Tarrytown thence thousand feet radius three miles town track trees Troy tunnel twenty-five miles Verplanck's Point vessels village visitors wall Washington West Point whole distance width York
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Side 43 - ... occasion. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature. • • "I am, sir, &c., "GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Side 43 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Side 9 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the buildingyard, while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule.
Side 9 - The moment arrived in which the word was to be given for the vessel to move. My friends were in groups on the deck. There was anxiety mixed with fear among them. They were silent, and sad, and weary.
Side 43 - I must add, that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the army than I do ; and, as far as my powers and influence, in a constitutional way, extend, they shall be employed to the utmost of my abilities to effect it, should there be any occasion.
Side 40 - The moon looks down on old Cronest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below...
Side 42 - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
Side 10 - I told you it was so; it is a foolish scheme: I wish we were well out of it." I elevated myself upon a platform and addressed the assembly. I stated that I knew not what was the matter, but if they would be quiet and indulge me for half an hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time.
Side 9 - Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path.
Side 40 - The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam, In an eel-like, spiral line below; The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And nought is heard on the lonely hill But the cricket's chirp, and the answer shrill Of the gauze-winged katydid...