Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 138
dson wasthe scene of such a maritime pageant that the peopleof that period had never dreamed of. On the date named a flotilla of canal boats, all newand gaily decorated, started from Buffalo, on LakeErie, for New York City. The news of the departurewas communicated to the latter city by the booming… … (_) o > s 9 -° g .a o Floating Towns 91 of people. Governor Clinton, the Canal Commissionersand all the State officials. There never was such a ring-ing of bells and booming of cannon in the place before.The people who had made the trip from Buffalo wereescorted to the capitol in a triumphal…
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