... Transportation Company's steamboats awaiting the arrival of the regular trains. These boats are constructed with especial reference to the navigation of the lake. They are well managed, fast, and safe, well calculated to afford all those comforts... Taintor's Route and City Guides - Page 71876Full view - About this book
| Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 326 pages
...calculated to afford all those comforts which make steamboat travelling delightful. Lake Champlain is 150 miles long, and varies in width from a few hundred yards to 15 miles. Its waters are clear, deep, and cold, and it is well stocked with fish of various kinds,... | |
| Syria - Asia - 1875 - 632 pages
...is a beautiful mountain common, nearly 3000 feet above the level of Sreenuggur ; it is about three miles long, and varies in width from a few hundred yards to more than a mile ; its direction is NW and SE, and it is bounded on all sides by hills, from which... | |
| Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...calculated to afford all those comforts which make steamboat travelling delightful. Lake Champlain is 150 miles long, and varies in width from a few hundred yards to 15 miles. Its waters are clear, deep, and cold, and it is well stocked with fish of various kinds,... | |
| Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...the lake. The raihuuy along the west bank of the lake was completed in 1876. Lake Champlain is 150 miles long, and varies in width from a few hundred yards to 15 miles. Its waters are clear, deep, and cold, and it is well stocked with fish of various kinds,... | |
| Adolphe Boucard - History - 1894 - 226 pages
...by the river Broux. Spuyten Duyvil Creek and Harlem River divide the City into two unequal portions, and make the northern boundary of Manhattan Island....varies in width from a few hundred yards to 4^ miles on the north part. Its area is about 41 \ square miles or 26,500 acres, of which 12,100 are on the... | |
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