 | 1825 - 424 pages
...With the facilities for rapid motion which it will afford, however, we think we are not too sanguine, in expecting to see the present extreme rate of travelling...400 miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, but without the annoyance of sea sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned. It... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...we find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus : ' We shall be carried at the rate of four hundred miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-boat,...annoyance of sea-sickness, Or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 pages
...we find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus : ' We shall be carried at the rate of four hundred miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-bout, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It... | |
 | 1825 - 560 pages
...we rind a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus : ' We shall be carried at the rate of four hundred miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-boat,...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate .of... | |
 | 608 pages
...steam-coaches. In a similar strain, we find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus: — ' We shall be carried at the rate of 400 miles a day, with all...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being humcd or drowned.' It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of 18... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...countryman of Mr Telford writing thus : — " We shall be carried at the rate of four hundred miles a-day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steamboat, but...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." But with all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 pages
...and proceeds : " In a similar strain we find a countryman of Mr. Telford's writing thus — 'We shall be carried at the rate of 400 miles a day with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam boat, &c. 8cc.' With all these assurances, we should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to... | |
 | 1903 - 666 pages
...we deem them and their visionary schemes find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus : ' We shall be carried at the rate of 400 miles a day, with all...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.' .It is certainly some consolation to those who are to be whirled at the rate of... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pages
...find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus:—" We shall be carried at the rate of 400 miles a-day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-boat, but...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned." " It is," the Review adds, " certainly some consolation to those who are to be... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1869 - 1026 pages
...rate of traveling [ten miles per hour] doubled. We shall then br carried at the rate of four hundred miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steamboat,...annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being hiirncil or drowned. It is impossible to anticipate the effects of euch an extraordinary facility of... | |
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We shall be carried at the rate of four hundred miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, Or the danger of being burned or drowned. 
