Westward by Rail: The New Route to the EastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1870 - 391 páginas |
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... voyage extending over ten weary days . By many persons a trip across the Atlantic is regarded as a commonplace and uninteresting excursion . Ac- cording to them , it is as much a thing of everyday 6 B occurrence as the passage of the ...
... voyage extending over ten weary days . By many persons a trip across the Atlantic is regarded as a commonplace and uninteresting excursion . Ac- cording to them , it is as much a thing of everyday 6 B occurrence as the passage of the ...
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... voyage to America has ceased to inspire universal and abiding interest . The unknown sea has been transformed into the ocean highway . Yet to those who make the voyage for the first time , the sensation is as novel and impressive as it ...
... voyage to America has ceased to inspire universal and abiding interest . The unknown sea has been transformed into the ocean highway . Yet to those who make the voyage for the first time , the sensation is as novel and impressive as it ...
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... voyage . Those who omitted to do this , or who were ignorant of the advantage of being ranked among the first comers , were doomed to the discomfort of sitting where the unpleasant effects caused by the rotation of the screw - propeller ...
... voyage . Those who omitted to do this , or who were ignorant of the advantage of being ranked among the first comers , were doomed to the discomfort of sitting where the unpleasant effects caused by the rotation of the screw - propeller ...
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... voyage across the ocean may be said to have really begun . Rounding the south coast of Ireland , the long Atlantic swell imparted to the steamer an amount of motion which cast down the spirits of the bad FROM THE MERSEY TO THE HUDSON . 5.
... voyage across the ocean may be said to have really begun . Rounding the south coast of Ireland , the long Atlantic swell imparted to the steamer an amount of motion which cast down the spirits of the bad FROM THE MERSEY TO THE HUDSON . 5.
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... voyage devoid of suffering , because made across a sea as placid as a land - locked bay . Still , the move- ment was not sufficiently great to produce incon- venience to the most timid or sensitive . Never have I witnessed a more ...
... voyage devoid of suffering , because made across a sea as placid as a land - locked bay . Still , the move- ment was not sufficiently great to produce incon- venience to the most timid or sensitive . Never have I witnessed a more ...
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