The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volumen25John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond A. S. Barnes., 1891 |
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... reach the eye - piece of his leveling instrument with- out the aid of a stool carried by an attendant . Thus it will be seen that he was identified almost from his cradle with great engineering works . His father died in 1818 , and in ...
... reach the eye - piece of his leveling instrument with- out the aid of a stool carried by an attendant . Thus it will be seen that he was identified almost from his cradle with great engineering works . His father died in 1818 , and in ...
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... reach twenty miles an hour on the railway he would have been laughed out of court . He cautiously expressed his faith in the possibility of running it ten miles an hour , and multitudes regarded the experiment with consterna- tion ...
... reach twenty miles an hour on the railway he would have been laughed out of court . He cautiously expressed his faith in the possibility of running it ten miles an hour , and multitudes regarded the experiment with consterna- tion ...
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... reach America in forty days . We have just sighted a large craft , but we do not know whether she be friend or foe . I have no time to write you more . NEWPORT , RHODE ISLAND , 5th August , 1780 . The letter I wrote you on the 16th of ...
... reach America in forty days . We have just sighted a large craft , but we do not know whether she be friend or foe . I have no time to write you more . NEWPORT , RHODE ISLAND , 5th August , 1780 . The letter I wrote you on the 16th of ...
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... reach here were not groundless , as Admiral Graves , who had left England in our wake with the determination to join us and fight us if he could , arrived in New York on the 13th , where he mustered a fresh crew and appeared at the ...
... reach here were not groundless , as Admiral Graves , who had left England in our wake with the determination to join us and fight us if he could , arrived in New York on the 13th , where he mustered a fresh crew and appeared at the ...
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... reach you safely , but will be personally handed to you without fear of its being opened and read . A frigate which Monsieur de Rochambeau is sending back to France will carry it to you , as one of the Duke de Lauzun's men is aboard of ...
... reach you safely , but will be personally handed to you without fear of its being opened and read . A frigate which Monsieur de Rochambeau is sending back to France will carry it to you , as one of the Duke de Lauzun's men is aboard of ...
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