A Scamper Through America: Or, Fifteen Thousand Miles of Ocean and Continent in Sixty Days |
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... of Missouri- Prospects of Harvest - Farmsteads and Prosperous Towns - English ideas of going from Home for a Change - A Big Figure 8 - Council Bluffs - Bridge 82 86 over the Missouri River - Omaha - Union Pacific Railroad CONTENTS . xiii.
... of Missouri- Prospects of Harvest - Farmsteads and Prosperous Towns - English ideas of going from Home for a Change - A Big Figure 8 - Council Bluffs - Bridge 82 86 over the Missouri River - Omaha - Union Pacific Railroad CONTENTS . xiii.
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... going as we were with the breeze , and the bright sun glinting upon the surface of the water , it felt absolutely warm . The biggest ship afloat , barring the Great Eastern , steamed on at the rate of seventeen knots an hour , with so ...
... going as we were with the breeze , and the bright sun glinting upon the surface of the water , it felt absolutely warm . The biggest ship afloat , barring the Great Eastern , steamed on at the rate of seventeen knots an hour , with so ...
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... going at a speed of fifteen and a half knots per hour . ( Six knots . are equal to about seven statute miles . ) There are patent logs , which , being drawn in the vessel's wake , register the number of revo- lutions made by the ...
... going at a speed of fifteen and a half knots per hour . ( Six knots . are equal to about seven statute miles . ) There are patent logs , which , being drawn in the vessel's wake , register the number of revo- lutions made by the ...
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... going sixteen and a half knots per hour , and at noon observations proved that our big floating hotel had gone over three hundred and ninety - five miles in the twenty - four hours . The course now set would take us about six hours ...
... going sixteen and a half knots per hour , and at noon observations proved that our big floating hotel had gone over three hundred and ninety - five miles in the twenty - four hours . The course now set would take us about six hours ...
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... going to church , and when they do go do not deem it de rigueur to attire themselves in orthodox church - going garb , were here seen decorously clad in suits of broadcloth , and there were ladies ready with their favourite hymns when ...
... going to church , and when they do go do not deem it de rigueur to attire themselves in orthodox church - going garb , were here seen decorously clad in suits of broadcloth , and there were ladies ready with their favourite hymns when ...
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