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The Story of Rapid Transit
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The life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0, Volume 2
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the tenth island being some account of newfoundland its people its politics
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: on a journey which passengers, paying the same low fare, can now perform in a little more than four hours. CHAPTER III STEAM NAVIGATION Once the art of navigation had been mastered and the regular trade routes established, the matter of speed was allowed to take care of itself, and even in quite modern times the rate at which ships traveled was an arbitrary one and not of a progressive character. Marco Polo in the twelfth century doubtless traveled as fast as Drake and Raleigh; and the early voyages undertaken by the East India Company to India do not seem to have been materially improved upon by their service in the era of Warren Hastings. Rapid transit was occasionally made, even in the old days; and as the eighteenth century wore on and speed came to be more and more considered in commercial circles, regular efforts were made by rival interests to economize time and lessen the number of days and hours en route. But it was not until steam was applied to navigation that speed became a certainty, and, therefore, a necessity of marine traffic, and it One voyage, Hastings's return from Calcutta to Plymouth in 1785, was thought remarkable for speed It was done in (our months and a half. o X grew possible to establish a regular ocean timetable. Yet to demonstrate that even with sailing ships our ancestors did not avail themselves of the utmost advantage, there was the memorable annual ocean race of 15,000 miles run by the China tea-ships within living memory. The London tea-brokers, in order to get the new crop into the market as quickly as possible, used to offer a prize of £500 to the officers and crew of the first tea-laden ship which reached the Thames. In 1866 nine such sailing ships left Foochow between May 2gth and June 6th, not very long, ranging from 68...
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the new american a study of the imperial republic
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m A LIEUTENANT AT DETTINGEN Very black it looked for the British under Lord Stair on June 19,1743, when King George II, accompanied by the youthful Duke of Cumberland and Lord Cartaret, arrived from Hanover to join the army, now reduced to 37,000 men, on half-rations, and the horses of the cavalry dying for want of forage. They were cooped up in a narrow valley bordering the river Main, between Aschaffenburg and a village called Dettingen. Two days later Wolfe writes his father To His Father. Camp near Aschaffenburg, June Zlit, 1743, N.8. Dear Sir,Captain Rainsford joined the regiment yesterday ; he brought us your letter, and made us both very happy with the good news of yours and my mother's health. We also got a letter from you by the post. Your kindness is better than our best behaviour can deserve, and we are infinitely happy in having so good parents. My brother is at present very much fatigued with the hard duty he has had for some days past. He was on a party last night, and saw shot fired in earnest, but was in no great danger, because separated from the enemy by the river Mayne. The French are on the other side that river, about a mile from us. We have now and then small skirmishes with those people. They attacked the other night a party of our men, but were repulsed with the loss of an officer and four or five men killed, and some made prisoners. They desert prodigiously; there were yesterday no less than forty deserters in the camp, that came over in the middle of the day, and brought with them great numbers of horses, for the river is fordable. Tis said there are 2000 Austrian Hussars come to us ; I fancy they will harass them a little. The Hessians, Pulteney's and Bligh's regiments have not yet joined us, as likewise some Hanoverian horse. I be...
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nova scotia the province that has been passed by
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lord strathcona the story of his life
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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in the ypres salient the story of a fortnights canadian fighting june 2 16 1
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great company a history of the honourable company of merchants adventurers trad
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george iii as man monarch and statesman
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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