In the river, and up to the bridge, some hundreds of ships were lying; and a fleet of steamboats opposite the handsome house of the St. George's Steam Packet Company.
Steamboats leave Marseilles three times every week for Corsica;—I like to be particular, especially when one gets beyond Murray's beat.
From Lyons, one of the long narrow steamboats afforded a most agreeable passage down the stream of the rapid Rhone to Avignon.
In the course of its decision the court declared unconstitutional a law of the State of New York which had granted an exclusive right to operatesteamboats in the waters of New York.
In the next year twenty steamboats were competing for the river traffic; and three years later (1820) seventy-two were in actual service.
At this time there were but two steamboats on this continent; these were the North River and The Clermont, and they were occupied on the Hudson River.
This voyage was made by the steamer Washington, and, as will be seen by reference to the list of steamboats published in the earlier part of this volume, was performed in the very brief period of forty-five days!
After the introduction of steamboats on the Western rivers, Mike's occupation was gone.
The whole interior fitting of steamboats and houses is undertaken here.
The large number of steamboats which are built and furnished at this point gives a great deal of work in this department of manufacture.
It will not be uninteresting to the reader, while upon this fruitful topic, to glance at a list of all the steamboats employed upon the western waters until 1819.
They have to carry it up from the scows to the steamboats, and from the steamboats to the shore.
We find here, much to our wonder, on one of the little mission steamboatswhich beat us out from Fort Smith word from the two good Sisters with whom we traveled on the scows up to Fort McMurray.
There are only two steamboats between us and the Arctic Circle now, barring one or two little ones which are not of much account.
You know that Governor Jackson went to Jefferson City and issued a proclamation calling the people to arms, and that Lyon came up the river on steamboats and routed him from there and from Booneville, too.
By this time a dozen steamboats belonging to the flotilla arrived upon the scene.
Half a dozen steamboats crammed with wildly excited naval cadets had left the College quay and were pelting down the harbour to greet the returning warriors.
A signal was made for a destroyer to take charge of the prize, since the steamboats were too small for the task.
There were several things that operated to prevent the reorganization of the fleet of steamboats which for size, beauty and capacity were found in no other part of the world.
The water rushed through the channel with such a velocity that steamboats could not breast its flow for many weeks, while the roaring of its flood could be heard many miles away.
Commanders in the vicinity of the corps were advised of the change, and ordered to prepare steamboats and transports.
To the surprise of all his friends, he abandoned his prosperous business and took command of one of the first steamboats launched, at a salary of one thousand dollars a year.
There are a few of the flat-bottomed, gaily caparisoned steamboats at the St. Paul to heighten the resemblance between the lower river and the upper, but that is all.
Illustration: You still see white steamboats at the New Orleans levee] An ugly old building did we say, with rough glance at its rusty facades?
The steamboats are crowded with troops, who are waiting for orders to sail, they know not where.
The current runs swiftly past the island, and steamboatsdescending the stream are carried within a stone's throw of the Tennessee shore.
A half-dozen steamboats lie in the stream below it.
There are thousands of soldiers on the steamboats and on the shore, waiting for the sailing of the expedition which is to make an opening in the line of Rebel defences.
The garrison at the island, and in the batteries along the shore, had to depend upon steamboats for their supplies.
Without fully perfecting his arrangements, or calculating the time needed for the steamboats to go from Fort Henry down to the Ohio and up the Cumberland, he ordered the two divisions to march.
When the war broke out the Rebels seized his steamboats and his coal-barges, and refused to pay him for the coal they had already purchased.
They went to the river-bank, and seized all the steamboats they could lay their hands upon belonging to Northern men.
The four steamboats which had worked their way through the canal were all ready.
Floyd gave out that he was going to join Colonel Forrest, who commanded the cavalry, and thus cut his way out; but there were two or three small steamboats at the Dover landing.
But we can hold out another day, and by that time we can get steamboats here to take us across the river," said General Pillow.
Four steamboats were fitted up, two barges, with cannon on board, were taken in tow, and the expedition started.
There are from fifty to a hundred steamboats lying along the bank, with volumes of black smoke rolling up from their tall chimneys, and puffs of steam vanishing in the air.
The Benton fired her rifled guns over the point of land at the Rebel steamboats below the island.
Steamboats frequently leave the sea and sail up its winding channels into the far interior of Ecuador--a distance of nearly 4,000 miles.
The bubonic plague had broken out farther down the country, steamboats were at a standstill, so we had to wait a passage down the river.
The first of these steamboats was built in the United States and transported to Russian waters, since which it has served as a model to builders, who have furnished many hundreds for river service.
A ceaseless activity reigns along the thoroughfares, among the little steamboats upon the many water-ways, and on the myriads of passenger steamers which ply upon the lake.
We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up-bound steamboats fight the big river in the middle.
Once there was a thick fog, and the rafts and things that went by was beating tin pans so the steamboats wouldn't run over them.
When I came in sight of the log store and the woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and brush till I got to a good place, and then I clumb up into the forks of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched.
In front, the beautiful, grand St. John's stretches five miles from shore to shore, and we watch the steamboats plying back and forth to the great world we are out of.
It is right on the river, and four steamboatspass it each week, on their way to Savannah and Charleston.
At this moment one of the little steamboats that constantly ply up and down the Grand Canal seemed to be bearing down upon them.
But there are so many other things--these little steamboats that pass constantly up and down, and take people so quickly and cheaply, and those large barche that are like express wagons.
Sometimes steamboats were in sight, smaller than the Ariadne yet of good size, traders along the coast from London, perhaps, to Spanish or French ports.
It is situated on the Iowa river, which is navigable at high water for steamboats of a small class.
As it is, there are four feet of water over the bar, and not so rapid as to prevent the ascent of steamboats to the Falls.
From what I saw and learned of intelligent persons, I think the smaller class of steamboats could for most part of the year ascend two hundred miles above the Falls.
Young's river is a stream about one hundred and fifty yards in width, and is navigable for steamboats and small sloops to the forks, six or seven miles up.
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