This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...to show the engine; 4 18, Newport; stopped for water; backed into a yard for it; stopped four times for horses.' "All that country, it will he remembered, is very uninhabited, except on passing through the towns; we passed through several towns. Generally speaking, when we came to the towns we were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...to show the engine; 4 18, Newport; stopped for water; backed into a yard for it; stopped four times for horses.' "All that country, it will he remembered, is very uninhabited, except on passing through the towns; we passed through several towns. Generally speaking, when we came to the towns we were inconvenienced by the number of people who were riding round us; we had forty or fifty people riding round us in one of the towns, and I was afraid one of them would be struck. Some of the horses made a great objection at first, but the gentlemen coaxed their horses up to the engine, and the thing ended in every one of them following us. The stoppage of the engine removed the difficulty. We never had any thing to do but to stop the engine, and then if a horse was frightened his rider would get down and coax him. The engine puffs off its steam like a locomotive, but the noise is not so loud. It struck me that the Bhoes on the wheel were the things that the horses did not like; they appeared to me more to dislike the sight of those shoes than they did the noise of the engine. The horses I speak of were hunters. ("Journal continued.)--'At 4-18, Newport; stopped for water; backed into a yard for it; stopped four times for horses. 5-3, went on; stopped very often to fill up water, fearing a want of accommodation. Windmill Hill very long and heavy, 1 in 15 in one place. 8-30, Bishop Stortford; put up for the night; turned off a 15-feet road at right angles with the whole train into the inn yard, which ascended steeply; stuck fast on a dung-heap, the rear wagon still overlying the turnpike road; put on double power and took in the whole train, dispersing the dung-heap all round; a shout from the bystanders, who had made up their minds that...
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