Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 65

Americans showed the way, but English put out on him and they were
him regularly traveling before another American vase followed in the funeral vigil
of the "Savanna." In the 1838 two steamboats English they crossed the Atlantic to
New York, the "Sirius" and the "Western Gran." That was the beginning of
that great fleet of British steamboats what time they use on and down the Seven
Seas and discoveries his crowned of laurel of poet in the Mr. Kipling. A very small beginning it
it was, also. The "Sirius" it was of 700 tons oppresses and the 320 horse-power;  the
"Big Westerner" it was 212 feet along, with a tonnage of 1340 and motor of
400 horse-power. The "Sirius" it brought seven passengers to New York, to a
time when the scissors of navigation were bringing from eight hundred to a
thousand immigrants, and from winds to forty passengers of box. To those
who accompanied the ship on his/her unmarried trip to which it is due to seem
you justify the doubts expressed by the mathematicians respect to the
the practicability to draw a steamboat to which you/he/she could bring enough coal
you drive from the principle at the end the motors through the Atlantic, for the unlucky one
"Sirius" it exhausted him four hundred and fifty coal tons before arriving
Sandy Hook, and you/he/she could not constitute the historical passage Bay of New York
under you vaporize, apart the liberal use of ago to fists and it puts in barrels of resin
what she had in load. Its Cork trip had occupied eighteen and a
half days. The "Western Gran" that it reached the same duration it did the
races from Queenstown in fifteen days. What two steamboats should lie to
you anchor in the Bay in New York to the same duration, it was enough to mix the wonders and
you wake up the enthusiasm of the Yorkers Nuovo and provincial of that day. The
newspapers published editorials on the wonder and the editor of _The
Messenger and Enquirer_, the maritime and principal authority of the time they risked
a prophecy in this cautious way:

    "What the last fate of this excitement can be--if or
    not the expenses of equipment and fuel will admit of the