Excursions in the north of Europe, through parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the years 1830 & 1833 . EXCURSIONS, CHAPTER AND LUBECK. Advantages of Steam-vessels—The Elbe—Hamburgh, its Port andTown — Churches—Orphan Asyhun — Cruehies practlseil —Execrable road to Lubeck—Description of Lubeck—Travemunde—Steam-boat to Cronstadt—St. Petersburg. The Marquess of Worcester, when a state-prisonerin the Tower of London, having witnessed one daythe cover of his boiUng-pot blown off and driven upthe chimney, his sagacious mind at once perceivedthat, by this simp
Excursions in the north of Europe, through parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the years 1830 & 1833 . EXCURSIONS, CHAPTER AND LUBECK. Advantages of Steam-vessels—The Elbe—Hamburgh, its Port andTown — Churches—Orphan Asyhun — Cruehies practlseil —Execrable road to Lubeck—Description of Lubeck—Travemunde—Steam-boat to Cronstadt—St. Petersburg. The Marquess of Worcester, when a state-prisonerin the Tower of London, having witnessed one daythe cover of his boiUng-pot blown off and driven upthe chimney, his sagacious mind at once perceivedthat, by this simple and not unusual incident, a newpower of extraordinary force iiad developed itself,by which large volumes of water might be lifted,heavy weights removed, and machinery put inmotion; but he could scarcely then have conceivedan idea that, at no distant period, by the power ofsteam, large vessels would be moved through thewater at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, or,as the Americans assert of their spoon-shaped boats,sixteen or eighteen miles an hour; or that a trainof lieavily-laden waggons
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