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...ed to imagine where her Englishman was. As she had no ideas of distance or steamboats, her notions were somewhat erroneous. It would not have made the...

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... I could; but of which it will be sufficient to remark that blowings up in steamboats and breakings down in coaches were among the least. But, having... ...point was Cin cinnati: and as this was a steamboat journey, and west ern steamboats usually blow up one or two a week in the season, it was advisabl... ...AMBOAT. CINCINNATI THE M ESSENGER WAS ONE among a crowd of high pressure steamboats, clustered together by a wharf side, which, looked down upon fro... ...imes very gravely recommended to keep as far aft as possible, ‘because the steamboats generally blew up forward.’ Nor was this an unnecessary caution,... ...quiet time of sunset, though we often tried. Queenston, at which place the steamboats start for Toronto (or I should rather say at which place they ca... ...being rendered so dangerous and difficult in the interval, by rapids, that steamboats do not make the passage. The number and length of those portages... ... but a day’s leap from barren winter, to the blooming youth of summer. The steamboats to Quebec perform the journey in the night; that is to say, they... ...it is matter of deep interest to be their fellow passenger on one of these steamboats, and mingling with the concourse, see and hear them unob served... ...d happiness which honest industry may earn: were very great surprises. The steamboats on the lakes, in their conveniences, cleanliness, and safety; in...

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...hat the Major had been out to get a little information about railroads and steamboats, as our boy was coming home for his Midsummer holidays next day ...

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... PLACE, in right of its good inn on the bank of the river, and the little steamboats, gay with green and red paint, that come and go upon it: which m... ... Lyons: which you may reach, if you will, in one of the before men tioned steamboats, in eight hours. What a city Lyons is! T alk about people feelin...

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...musing description to strangers; in short, that they had much to say about steamboats, lord mayor’s coaches, and the way fires are put out in London, ...

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... distance, to have special convey- ances, to charter railway-carriages and steamboats, har- monized with his relish for bold processes, and made hos- ...

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...here’ll be no credit in being jolly with him!’ The time wore on, and other steamboats coming from the point on which their hopes were fixed, arrived t... ...an and the public-house. But never half so good a stroll as down among the steamboats on a bright morning. There they lay, alongside of each other; ha...

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...nate way, bumping up against the larger craft, run ning under the bows of steamboats, getting into every kind of nook and corner where they had no bu...

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...ding her about Paris, of driving her in the Bois, of showing her the penny steamboats—those from which the breeze of the Seine was to be best en- joye...

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...below Rouen. Here the next morning (10th), it was met by the flo- tilla of steamboats of the Upper Seine, consisting of the three “Dorades,” the three...

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...he offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of timber la... ...f such a charming daughter. And then, as they sat looking at the ships and steamboats making their way to the sea with the tide that was running down,...

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... wish to go in the little steamer; she declared that she had a passion for steamboats. There was always such a lovely breeze upon the water, and you s...

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...rough the Thousand Isles and over the Rapids, in one of those large summer steamboats which ply upon the lake and river. I cannot say that I was much ... ...or the wedding ring. For these reasons I must say that life on board these steamboats was not as pleasant as I had hoped to find it; but for our disco...

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...owed that they knew enough to make them wish to go farther. The pictures of steamboats and railroad cars, in the columns of some newspapers which I... ...had myself. This difficulty, of course, existed in the same force with the steamboats and all I could do was to give them some account of the result...

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... In the early days of the country, before we had railroads, telegraphs and steamboats—in a word, rapid transit of any sort—the States were each almost...