 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 pages
...descriptions of the effects of her first appearance upon the people of the banks of the river: some of these were ridiculous, but some of them were of such a character,...some who had indistinctly seen her passing in the mght, to those who had not had a view of her, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pages
...descriptions of the effects of her first appearance upon the people of the banks of the river. Some of them were ridiculous, but some of them were of such a character...seen her passing in the night, to those who had not a view of her, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...saw the boat returning at n'ght, at th ' rate of five miles an hour, could only conceive her to be a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and bieathing flames and smoke. It was even said that the crews of the ordinary vessels on the river hid... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...the shores of the Hudson, many of whom had never heard even of an engine, much less of a steam-boat. She was described by some, who had indistinctly seen her passing in the night, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flame and smoke. She had... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1856 - 860 pages
...descriptions of the effects of her first appearance upon the people on the banks of the river ; some of these were ridiculous, but some of them were of such a character...the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke." Mr Fulton gives the following account of the same voyage in a letter to his friend Mr Barlow : —... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...September, the anniversary of Perry1! had indistmtinctly seen her passing in the night, to those who had not a view of her, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the wind and tide, and breathing flames and smoke." IMM> u- m_ni „...,„,.. "She had the most terrific... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...the shores of the river, many of whom had never heard even of an engine, much less of a steamboat. She was described by some, who had indistinctly seen her passing in the night, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tides, and breathing flame and smoke. She... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...vessel was described by some who saw her indistinctly in tho night, as " a monstor moving on the water, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke." '• She had," he proceeds to say, " the most terrific appearance from other vessels which were navigating the river... | |
 | Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 pages
...both pen and pencil, some of which were most ridiculous, while others were of that character which nothing but an object of real grandeur could have...who had indistinctly seen her passing in the night, as u living monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke.... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 514 pages
...the shores of the Hudson, many of whom had not heard even of an engine, much less of a steam boat. She was described by some who had indistinctly seen her passing in the night, as a monster moving on the waters, defying the tide, and breathing flames and smoke. Her volumes of... | |
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... monster moving on the waters, defying the winds and tide, and breathing flames and smoke. She had the most terrific appearance from other vessels which were navigating the river when she was making her passage. The first... 
