Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 50

oak touches with the knee and pine covering. Southern forests were drawn on, and also
the grandiose pines of Sound of Puget were dejected to constitute trees a Yankee
ship.

**The notes of transcriber:
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I CAPITULATE II.

THE TRANSITION FROM SAILS TO VAPORIZE--THE CHANGE IN SEA ARCHITECTURE--IL
THE DEPOPULATION OF THE OCEAN--CHANGES IN THE DESTINY OF THE SAILOR--FROM WOOD Á.
STEEL--THE INVENTION OF THE STEAMBOAT--THE FATE OF FITCH--FULTON È LONG
STRUGGLES--THE SCIENTISTS' OPPOSITION--IL "CLERMONT"--THE STEAMBOAT ON
THE OCEAN--ON WESTERN RIVERS--THE TRANSATLANTIC PASSAGE--HER "SAVANNA"
AGO THE FIRST CROSSING--ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH LINES--THE EFFORTS OF
UNITED HE/SHE AFFIRMS SHIP-OWNERS TO COMPETE--THE FAMOUS COLLINS LINE--IL
DEALER HARBORS' DECADENCE--SIGNALS OF HIS/HER REVIVAL--OUR GREAT NATIONAL
INTEREST THAT SENDS--THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICA ON THE SEA.


Also as recently as twenty years ago, the forehead of water of a great seaport
likes New York, seen by the I bring it showed a towering forest of tall
and tapered trees, arriving tall above above of the roofs of the water-side
buildings, crossed with slender ago to fists hung with snowy cloth, and it stopped
with a web of tense cordage. Through the road of which the foot has passed the
slips, reach the great bowsprits or jibbooms while jumping from
excellent-drawn arcs where, above of an acute cut-water, the figurehead--the pride of
the ship--it nested in confident strength. Neptune with his/her trident, Venus
rising from the sea, admirals of every age and the nationality, favorite
heroes it likes Wellington and Andrew Jackson you/they were carved, with different ability,
from strong oak, and it put on to drive their vases through tumultuous seas.

[The illustration: "You Forehead of Water Of A Great Seaport As York Nuova"]

To-day, alas, the towering trees, the order puts in enclosure, the web of cordage, the
characteristic figureheads, have gone or going fast. The basins, once so populous,