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... in eight days, so much depended upon the success of this experiment, that I felt great anxiety until the trial was made, and I cannot express the happiness I felt at finding that nothing could more fully have answered our purpose, and that this Boat...

A Sketch of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Progress of the Town of ... - Pagina 5
de Thomas W. Poole - 1867 - 220 pagini
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Parliamentary Papers, Volumul 4

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1826 - 702 pagini

...carrying an immense burden, could be more easily worked against the stream, than one of half its length carrying comparatively nothing. Now that I had opened...the head of the river, there was no other difficulty in the way than that which arose from the prevailing sickness, the ague and fever, which at this tiine...

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