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" ... heard, the crews (if what was said in the newspapers of the time be true) in some instances shrunk beneath their decks from the terrific sight, and left their vessels to go on shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect... "
A Book about Travelling, Past and Present - Pàgina 367
per Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 608 pàgines
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The Life of Robert Fulton

Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 406 pàgines
...of the machinery and paddles were heard, the crews (if what was said in the newspapers of the time be true,) in some instances shrunk beneath their decks...and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited. Mr. Fulton was himself a passenger on this voyage, and .upon his return published an account of it,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volum 19

1818 - 598 pàgines
...of the machinery and paddles were heard, the crews (if what was taid in the newspapers of the time be true) in some instances shrunk beneath their decks...lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.' —p. 172, 173. We understand, however, that eleven years before this period, Mr. Livingstone had made...
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The Quarterly Review, Volum 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pàgines
...some instances shrunk beneath their decks from the terrific sight, and left their vessels to go cm shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought...lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.' —p. 172, 173. We understand, however, that eleven years before this period, Mr. Livingstone had made...
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The Quarterly Review, Volum 19

1818 - 606 pàgines
...to go on shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from tbe approaches of the horrible monster, which was marching...lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.' —p. 172, 173. We understand, however, that eleven years before this period, Mr. Livingstone had made...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volum 19

1819 - 630 pàgines
...themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from the approaches of the horrible monster, which wai marching on the tides and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.'— p. 172, 173. We understand, however, that elevenyears before this period, Mr. Livingston had made some...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 pàgines
...them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews in some instances shrunk beneath their decks from...and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited. Tmu. I] TV.*. Vesuvius 390 Kentucky 80 Etna 390 Governor Shelby 120 Buffalo 300 Madison 200 James Monroe...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 356 pàgines
...besought Providence to;pro' tcct them from the approaches of the horrible monster, which was marching oa the tides, and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited." Building. Tom. 2 at Pittsburgh of 180 tons 360 2 at Wheeling, of 500 and 100 600 2 at Steubenville...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of Their ..., Volum 2

Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pàgines
...shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from the approach of the horrible monster which was marching on the...going and returning, the wind (a light breeze) being a- head, the whole was performed by the steam-engine and wheels. The voyagers overtook many sloops...
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The Steam-engine: Being a Popular Description of the Construction and Action ...

Hugo Reid - 1838 - 234 pàgines
...shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from the approach of the horrible monster which was marching on the...lighting its path by the fires which it vomited." 312. Fulton thus demonstrated the capability of steam to be applied as a moving power for ships. A...
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1838 - 1116 pàgines
...besought Providence to protect them from the approaches of the horrible monster which was inarching on the tides, and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited." The inland navigation of this country has made an amazing progress since the commencement of the present...
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