 | 1827 - 640 pàgines
...distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel...are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada.' — pp. 142, 143. Lieutenant de Roos speaks with just approbation of the canals now in course of excavation... | |
 | 1827 - 624 pàgines
...distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel must acquire when driven on skates before the wind. These boats are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada. — De Roos's Personal Narrative.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pàgines
...distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel...are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada.' — DeRoos, pp. 142, 143. By no means ' necessarily' so. We remember, many years ago, two Englishmen... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pàgines
...distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel...are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada.' — DeRoos, pp. 14-2, 143. By no means ' necessarily' so. We remember, many years ago, two Englishmen... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pàgines
...distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel...are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada.' — De Roos, Pp. 142, 143. By no means ' necessarily' so. We remember, many years ago, two Englishmen... | |
 | Old Sailor - 1826 - 534 pàgines
...distance of 40 miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel...boats are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada. Narrative of M, De Root. Turkish Cannon. No man-of-war carries any cannon of a large calibre, but the... | |
 | 1834 - 502 pàgines
...distance of 40 miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on the velocity which such a vessel must acquire when driven on skates before the wind. These boats are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada." Mr. De Roos was unable to cross... | |
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... distance of twenty-three miles in an hour ; and he knew an instance of an ice-boat having crossed from York to Fort Niagara (a distance of forty miles) in little more than three quarters of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect on... 