| 1835 - 472 pages
...the most exhilarating, delightful exercise. A carriage will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at...York, the same day. To accomplish this, two sets of rail ways will be laid, 10 nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a... | |
| 1835 - 490 pages
...nut from Washington in ihr mornng, the passengers will breakfhst ¡u H;dtimore, dine at 'hiladelphia, and sup at New York, the same day. To accomplish this, two sets of railways will I»,- bid, 0 nearly level as not in any pince lo deviate innre than wo degrees from я horizontal line,... | |
| Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day. To accomplish this, two sets...railways will be laid, so nearly level as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, or smooth paths... | |
| Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - 266 pages
...fly — fifteen or twenty miles an hour. 2. "A carriage will set out from Washington in the morning; the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New-York the same day. " To accomplish this, two sets of rail-ways will be laid, travelled by night... | |
| William Sloane Kennedy - 1884 - 298 pages
...exercise. "A carriage will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast in Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York...sets of railways will be laid (so nearly level as not to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line), made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of... | |
| Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1893 - 332 pages
...Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day. To accomplish this, two sets...railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood, or iron, or smooth paths... | |
| Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day. To accomplish this, two sets...railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood, or iron, or smooth paths... | |
| 1878 - 804 pages
...can fly — fifteen or twenty miles an hour. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York the same day. . . . "Engines will drive boats ten or twelve miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers... | |
| Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 364 pages
...said in 1804: "The time will come when a steam carriage will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York." This prophecy seemed very wild to the people who heard it, but it soon came true. Now railroad travel... | |
| Lyman Horace Weeks - 1904 - 240 pages
...the most rapid exhilarating exercise. A carriage (steam) will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York in the same day." To accomplish this he suggested railways of wood or iron, or smooth paths of broken... | |
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