Two thousand miles on an automobile : being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, Canada, and the West (1902)
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920, Holloway, Edward Stratton, 1859-1939, binding designer · Philadelphia ; London : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 164
road macadam, perfectly constructed. In going up this easy and perfectly smooth ascentfor some six or seven miles, the disadvantage of having no intermediate-speed gears was forcibly illustrated, for the grade was just too stiff for the highspeed gear, and yet so easy that the engine tended torace… … THE CQUF7T CONSIDERS THE MATTER CHAPTER TWELVE AN INCIDENT OF TRAVEL IN Pittsfield the machine frightened a lawyer,—nota woman, or a child, or a horse, or a donkey,—but justa lawyer; to be sure, there was nothing to indicate hewas a lawyer, and still less that he was unusuallytimid of his kind,…
Automobiles · United States -- Description and travel
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