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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 76

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The daring ofFrance, the inventive genius of America, and the wide experience and soundjudgment of Great Britain, have united in this work. Our country has ledtime and again in the march of improvement; although our progress hasbeen fitful, since, more than a generation ago, we turned from the sea… … 66 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY A contemporary authority states that, when British Admiral Sir JohnBorlase Warren ascended the Potomac River,, during the war of 1812, hisexpedition was reconnoitred by an American steamer. This appears to bethe first record of the use of such craft for…

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