| Cadwallader David Colden - Naval architects - 1817 - 400 pages
...it exceeded what he had promised the government, which was, that she should be propelled by steam, at the rate of from three to four miles an hour. The truth is, there are yet the most obvious and important defects in the machinery of this vessel; and... | |
| Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 pages
...voyages may be conveniently made in a season. Each boat is manned by two men. The stream carries it down at the rate of from three to four miles an hour. On their return the boatmen avail themselves of the eddies, or back currents, which are often found... | |
| Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...voyages may be conveniently made in a season. Each boat is manned by two men. The stream carries it down at the rate of from three to four miles an hour. On their return the boatmen avail themselves of the eddies, or back currents, which are often found... | |
| James Rennie - Bait fishing - 1833 - 164 pages
...springs. The ordinary method of fishing for this kind of trout, is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour, the lure a common trout from three to ten inches in length, baited upon six or eight salmon hooks, tied... | |
| George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 280 pages
...springs. The ordinary method of fishing for this kind of trout is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour ; the lure a common trout, from about three to ten inches in length, baited upon six or eight salmon hooks,... | |
| James Wilson - Fishes - 1840 - 512 pages
...springs. The ordinary method of fishing for this king of trouts is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour, the lure a common trout from three to eight inches in length, baited upon six or eight salmon hooks, tied... | |
| 1840 - 764 pages
...pounds. The ordinary method of fishing for this king of fronts is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour, the lure, л common trout from three to eight inches in length, baited upon eix or eight salmon hooks,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...springs. The ordinary method of fishing for this king of tronts is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour ; the lure, a common trout, from three to ten inches in length, Ijaiied upwi six or eight salmon hooks, tied... | |
| Van-ti (fict. name.) - 1844 - 152 pages
...other — the four off duty running by the side of the vehicle. They generally go, if the road is good, at the rate of from three to four miles an hour. The length of the stages performed by the same set of bearers varies also from ten to fourteen miles. They... | |
| Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...springs. The ordinary method of fishing for this kind of tront, is with a powerful rod, from a boat rowing at the rate of from three to four miles an hour; the lure a common trout from three to ten inches in length, baited upon six or eight salmon hooks, tied... | |
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