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... land , water , naval architecture ( embracing everything at the present time afloat , with the probable exception of a Chinese junk and the piratical - looking Algerine fishing smack ) and land architecture as varied and remarkable as ...
... land , water , naval architecture ( embracing everything at the present time afloat , with the probable exception of a Chinese junk and the piratical - looking Algerine fishing smack ) and land architecture as varied and remarkable as ...
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... land to New York , after transporting them safely through miles of Chesapeake's white - capped waves ; fretful , busy tugs , which , as if not content by displacing water themselves , were towing monster barges with tim- bers groaning ...
... land to New York , after transporting them safely through miles of Chesapeake's white - capped waves ; fretful , busy tugs , which , as if not content by displacing water themselves , were towing monster barges with tim- bers groaning ...
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... land , water and moving craft , and , although she has no noted docks like many European cities , or projecting stone piers or other triumphs of marine engineering , still there is much to interest one on the shipping front of this 42 ...
... land , water and moving craft , and , although she has no noted docks like many European cities , or projecting stone piers or other triumphs of marine engineering , still there is much to interest one on the shipping front of this 42 ...
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... land , and huge boxes of calicoes , muslins and lawns from the looms of Massachusetts consigned to every one of the same States ; marble from Tennessee for Boston , and soda - water fountains made at the Hub legibly directed to a number ...
... land , and huge boxes of calicoes , muslins and lawns from the looms of Massachusetts consigned to every one of the same States ; marble from Tennessee for Boston , and soda - water fountains made at the Hub legibly directed to a number ...
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... land side and sheds and warehouses on the water to its end at the well - improved estate of the NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD , which , judging from what I saw , I should say is the largest property - owner in Norfolk ; neither has any ...
... land side and sheds and warehouses on the water to its end at the well - improved estate of the NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD , which , judging from what I saw , I should say is the largest property - owner in Norfolk ; neither has any ...
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advertisement Agent Albemarle appearance architectural Atlantic attractive avenue Baltimore Bank street beautiful Bern Bros building Canal cemeteries centre Chesapeake Church street citizens of Norfolk Commerce street Company corner cotton court-house crossing CURRITUCK COUNTY Dealers Doric order Edenton Editor and Proprietor Elizabeth City erected Fearing street Free Mason Free Mason street freight front GATESVILLE give Granby street granite grounds handsome harbor Hotel interest iron Kinston Lambert's Point land leading business houses look magnificent Main street mansard Manufacturers marble Marine Market Square Middle street monuments Navigation neat Neuse Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Railroad North Carolina Nowitzky's ornamented Pamlico park Pasquotank passengers Perquimans county Portsmouth pretty railroad RALEIGH road Roanoke river solid sound and river South stands steam-boats steamer stone stranger stream structure substantial surroundings tion tower town trees Trent River Virginia walk walls Washington Water street weekly well-designed wharf wharves Wholesale and Retail
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