...But the : steam-boats put them to flight at once. ' The substitution of machinery for manual labour, occasioned a vast diminution in the number of men...rapidly from one large port to another, making no halt but to receive or discharge merchandize, at intermediate places. The commanders of steam-boats are...

...introduction of steam-boats at once effected a revolution. The substitution of machinery for manual labour, occasioned a vast diminution in the number of men...rapidly from one large port to another, making no halt but to receive or discharge merchandise, at intermediate places. The commanders of steam-boats are...

...to ascend the stream, and which required many hands to navigate them. Each barge carried from thirty to forty boatmen, and a number of these boats frequently...rapidly from one large port to another, making no halt, but to receive or discharge merchandise at intermediate places. The commanders of steamboats, are men...

...introduction of steamboats at once effected a revolution. The substitution of machinery for manual labour, occasioned a vast diminution in the number of men...rapidly from one large port to another, making no halt, but to receive or discharge merchandise at intermediate places. The commanders of steamboats are men...

...manual labour, occasioned a vast diminution in the number of men required for the river navigation. Л steam-boat, with the same crew as a barge, will carry...infested the whole country, by stopping frequently, and ofU'ii spending their nights on shore ; while the steam-boats pass rapidly from one large port to another,...