The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . and week after week to make a journey of hundreds of miles on horseback, or they were jolted over bad roads in stage-wagons or carriages. Pack-horses or heavy wagons carried all the freight that went by land. Boats, rowed or pushed with poles, went slowly up and 278 HISTORY OF THE UNITED Improvement inships made byAmericans. Bal-timore clippers. Fultons firststeamboat, 1807. The Erother c down the rivers, carrying passen-gers and freight. Periaugers, withoars and sails, and other small ves-sels, plied up
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . and week after week to make a journey of hundreds of miles on horseback, or they were jolted over bad roads in stage-wagons or carriages. Pack-horses or heavy wagons carried all the freight that went by land. Boats, rowed or pushed with poles, went slowly up and 278 HISTORY OF THE UNITED Improvement inships made byAmericans. Bal-timore clippers. Fultons firststeamboat, 1807. The Erother c down the rivers, carrying passen-gers and freight. Periaugers, withoars and sails, and other small ves-sels, plied up and down the coast,and all the ships at sea were pro-pelled by sails. In ships our people made greatimprovements. The Baltimoreclipper, a schooner with rakingmasts—that is, masts that slantedbackward—was famous for its frigates gained advantages inthe War of 1812 by being better sailers than the Englishmen-of-war. At a later period the American clipper-built ships were the swiftest sailing-vessels in the the invention of the steam-engine in England,attempts were made in France, Scotland, and Americato build boats that would go by steam. But Robert Fulton, an American, built the first reallysuccessful steamboat. This boat,the Clermont, was launched in1807, and ran between NewYork and Albany, to the greatwonder of all who saw soo
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