| William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 46 sidor
...meeting us in India, China, and even on our own Pacific coast, with the advantage of some ten days' sail or more, the scales will be turned, and we shall...some twenty or thirty days, thus making a difference in our favor of thirty or forty days under canvass." These graphic anticipations will in every probability... | |
| John Jay Williams - 1852 - 688 sidor
...meeting us in India, China, and even on our own Pacific coast, with the advantage of some ten days' sail or more, the scales will "be turned, and we shall...some twenty or thirty days, thus making a difference in our favor of thirty or forty days under canvas." But the proof does not rest on Lieut. Maury alone.... | |
| 1883 - 514 sidor
...in "India, China, and our own Pacific coasts with the advantage of some ten days' sail, the tables will be turned, and we shall have the- advantage of...some twenty or thirty days, thus making a difference of thirty or forty days under canvas." The Atlantic and Gulf ports of America would then be upon "... | |
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