 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 324 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention." Soon after this successful... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1894 - 462 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention," etc. Soon after this successful... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention." Soon after this successful... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the 172 13 immense advantage my country will derive from the invention, etc. THE FIRST VOVAC.E OF... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 512 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the 172 13 immense advantage my country will derive from the invention, etc. THE FIRST VOVAGE OF... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the 172 immense advantage my country will derive from the invention, etc. THE FIRST VOVAGE OF THE... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 420 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying...personal emolument has been some inducement to me, I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 508 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention," 1 etc. Professor Renwick, describing... | |
 | United States - 1905 - 458 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a quick and cheap conveyance to merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleased in reflecting with you on the immense advantage that my country will derive from the invention.... | |
 | John Harrison Morrison - Steam-navigation - 1908 - 654 pages
...answer my expectations: it will give a quick and cheap conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi. Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention." About two weeks after the experimental... | |
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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... 
