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 34
and privilege of navi-gating all kinds of boats by steam, on all the watersof the State for the term of twenty years, upon condi-tion that they would produce a boat of not less thantwenty tons burden, which would move with andagainst the current of the Hudson River at the rate ofjour miles an hour.… … O The First Steamboat 13 One of the incidents of this first eventful trip of theClermonty which should not be overlooked, is said tohave been the announcement of the betrothal of Fultonto Harriet Livingston, a relative of the Chancellors,and whose subsequent marriage has already beennoticed in the…
Steam-navigation
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