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Report of the practicability of navigating with steam boats, : on the southern waters of the United States, from the Chesapeake to the River St. Mary's, forming part of a line of steam boat communications, now establishing, from the northern extremity of Lake Champlain to East-Florida, a distance of fifteen hundred miles

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1828.
Call number: 189363
Creator: Fulton, Robert (1765-1815)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 21 cm
Associated people: Delacy, John D. (-1835.); Town, Thomas, (1855-1937,); Eames, Wilberforce,
Associated organization: Philadelphia (Pa.).
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