 | Henry Whittemore - Railroads - 1909 - 192 pages
...my e.\i>ectations. 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 advantages that my country will derive from the invention. ' ' One of the invited guests... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) - 1909 - 110 pages
...answered 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. Eight years of life remained to... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1909 - 574 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...emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel indefinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention.... | |
 | Henry Whittemore - Railroads - 1909 - 196 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...enterprise of our countrymen; and although the prospect of peisonal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting... | |
 | 1909 - 998 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our country; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel... | |
 | George Iles - Inventors - 1912 - 538 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." During the winter of 1807-08,... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 230 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandize on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; and, altho the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more... | |
 | Edwin Wilson Morse - United States - 1912 - 342 pages
...friend Joel Barlow, after describing the trip of the Clermont, "to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers which are now laying...their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. " Within a few years steam-boats were plying on all of these western rivers as well as on the inland... | |
 | Henry Winram Dickinson - Technology & Engineering - 1913 - 446 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers which are now laying...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw from the invention. ..." The references to the... | |
 | Henry Winram Dickinson - Technology & Engineering - 1913 - 506 pages
...advantages that my country will draw from the invention. . . ." The references to the Mississippi, Missouri, and " other great rivers which are now laying open their treasures " is of course to the recent purchase of Louisiana from France, and shows that Fulton had already directed... | |
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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... 
