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 132
eat inland marine, that spranginto existence on the opening of the Erie Canal, hadas many different ideas as to the naming of their boatsas come to the minds of parents naming their first born.Some were fancy, some just homely family names afterthe owners wife or daughter; others were those… … Floating Towns 87 more firmly with two-inch hawsers to Elizabeth Jonesof Fort Ann, than the marital ties of many couplesbind them to-day. General George Washington is aptto be found keeping company with Polly, all the waydown the river and if two late stragglers join the towand are hitched on…
Steam-navigation
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