 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 406 páginas
...brandishes three hundred cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales; works also an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them...her sides, with prodigious force, and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute!" • 'The committee that superintended the building of the Fulton the... | |
 | 1833 - 598 páginas
...brandishes 300 cutlasses with the greatest regularity over her gunwales, and works an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them...from her sides with prodigious force, and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute. While navigation and manufactures were rapidly improving, it was not... | |
 | 1833 - 598 páginas
...brandishes 300 cutlasses with the greatest regularity over her gunwales, and works an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them...from her sides with prodigious force, and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute. While navigation and manufactures were rapidly improving, it was not... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 páginas
...discharge one hundred gallons of boiling •water in a minute, and by mechanism brandishes three hundred cutlasses, with the utmost regularity, over her gunwales ; works also an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them from her sides with prodigious force, and... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 656 páginas
...cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales, works also an equal number of heavy iron spikes of great length, darting them from her sides with prodigious force and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute !" The frigate made a second experimental trip, on the 11th of September,... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 614 páginas
...discharge one hundred gallons of boiling water in a minute, and, by mechanism, brandishes three hundred cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales, works also an equal number of heavy iron spikes of great length, darting them from her sides with prodigious force and... | |
 | 1860 - 468 páginas
...attempting to board can dischargelOOgallons of boiling water in a minute, and by mechanism, brandishes 300 cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales,...of heavy iron pikes of great length; darting them frora her sides with prodigious force and withdrawing the same every quarter of a minute." BÜCHAVAN... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1863 - 452 páginas
...discharge' one hundred gallons of boiling water in a minute ; and, by mechanism, brandishes three hundred cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales ; works also an equal number of heavy iron spikes of great length, darting them from the sides with prodigious force and... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 686 páginas
...three hundred cutlasses, with the utmost regularity, over her gunwales ; works also an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them...from her sides with prodigious force, and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute!" Fulton followed up the " Clermont," in 1807, with a larger boat, called... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 694 páginas
...discharge one hundred gallons of boiling water in a minute, and by mechanism brandishes three hundred cutlasses, with the utmost regularity, over her gunwales ; works also an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them from her sides with prodigious force, and... | |
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... and further, to annoy an enemy attempting to board, can discharge one hundred gallons of boiling water in a minute, and by mechanism brandishes three hundred cutlasses, with the utmost regularity, over her gunwales ; works also an equal number of... 
