Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . s ten thousandthroats never gave before. The i)assen-gers returned the cheer, but Fulton stoodupon the deck, his eyes flashing with an un-usual brilliancy as he surveyed the felt th
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . s ten thousandthroats never gave before. The i)assen-gers returned the cheer, but Fulton stoodupon the deck, his eyes flashing with an un-usual brilliancy as he surveyed the felt that the magic wand of Successwas waving over him, and he was silent. As the boat sailed or steamed by WestPoint, the whole garrison was out, andcheered most lustily. At Newburg, itseemed as if all Orange county was col-lected there; the whole side-hill cityseemed animated with lifi. E\ery sail-boat and water-craft was out. The ferry-boat from Fishkill was filled with ladies,1 but Fulton was engaged in seeing a pas-I scnger landed, and did not observe tbe GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 215 boat until she bore up nearly alongside;the flapping of a sail arrested his atten-tion, and, as he turned, the waving of somany handkerchiefs, and the smiles of so In a letter to his friend and patron, , Eulton sajs of this Clermont trialtrip : My steam-boat voyage to Albanyand back has turned out rather more. many bright and happy faces, struck himwith surprise, and, raising his hat, he ex-claimed, That is the finest sight we haveseen yet. favorable than I had calculated. The dis-tance to Albany is one hundred and fiftymiles. I ran up in tliirty-two liours anddown iu thirty. The latter is just five i 216 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—177G-1876. miles an hour. I had a light breezeagainst me the whole way, going and com-ing, so that no use was made of my sails,and this voyage has been performed whol-ly by the power of the steam engine. Iovertook many sloops and schooners beat-ing to the windward, a
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