 My steamboat voyage to Albany and back has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles : I ran it up in thirtytwo hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me...  The Century: 1909 - Página 8231909Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Manfred Thompson - 1917 - 586 páginas
...favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to AIbany is one hundred and fifty miles. 1 ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty....the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam-engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward, and parted with them."... | |
 | Frank Puterbaugh Bachman - 1918 - 284 páginas
...has turned out rather more favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. I ran it up in thirty-two...the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to the windward, and parted with them... | |
 | Harold Underwood Faulkner - 1924 - 752 páginas
..."has turned out rather more favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. I ran it up in thirty-two...the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steamengine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward, and parted with them. The... | |
 | Malcolm Keir - 1927 - 382 páginas
...has turned out rather more favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles: I ran it up in thirtytwo...the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted writh them as... | |
 | Albert Ulmann - 1928 - 324 páginas
...has turned out rather more favourably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. I ran it up in thirty-two...the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam-engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward, and parted with them as... | |
 | Frances F. Dunwell - 1991 - 314 páginas
...same round-trip passage would have taken a sloop about a week, depending on the tides and weather. "I overtook many sloops and schooners, beating to...and parted with them as if they had been at anchor," wrote inventor Robert Fulton of the voyage.1 Steamboats rapidly won acceptance as comfortable, fast... | |
 | William B. Meyer - 2014 - 294 páginas
...New York to Albany and back again in August of that year that marked the start of regular service. "I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming," he wrote to a friend; "I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward, and parted with them... | |
 | Basil Clark - 2007 - 186 páginas
...to Albany some 150 miles up-stream. In Fulton's words 'I ran it up in 32 hours and back down in 30, I had a light breeze against me the whole way both...going and coming and the voyage has been performed entirely by the power of the steam engine'. The journey was not continuous over the 62 hours but consisted... | |
 | Frank P. Bachman - 2010 - 292 páginas
...back has turned out more favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York City to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. I ran it up in thirty-two...the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to the windward, and parted with them... | |
 | Walter Wilson Jennings - 1926 - 850 páginas
...has turned ont rather more favorably than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles. I ran it up in thirty-two...hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against mo the whole way, both going and coming; and the voyage has been performed wholly by the power of the... | |
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