Allegheny County's Hundred YearsA. A. Anderson & Son, book and job printers, 1888 - 312 頁 |
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Allegheny City Allegheny county Allegheny river amount April Bank of Pittsburgh banking house began business blast furnace boat Bros building built burgh capital cashier cent Chas Church citizens coal coke committee Company continued corner county's crucible steel dividends Duquesne Edgar Thomson Steel Eichbaum elected erected established feet firm became firm style flint glass Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt foundry furnace George gheny Henry Herron hundred Ihmsen increase Indians industries iron James January John Jones Joseph July manufacturing mentioned Monongahela Monongahela river mustered National Bank natural gas Nimick O'Hara Ohio organized paid Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad petroleum pig metal Pitt present president production progress railroad Regiment resigned river Robert rolling mill Samuel secretary Shoenberger Speer steamboat steel subsequently succeeded surplus table ware Thos tons town troops Washington Western Westmoreland county wholesale William window glass Wood street
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第 103 頁 - No danger need be apprehended from the enemy, as every person on board will be under cover made proof against rifle or musket balls, and convenient port holes for firing out of.
第 3 頁 - As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time in viewing the rivers, and the land in the fork, which I think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty-five feet above the common surface of the water; and a considerable bottom of flat, well timbered land all around it very convenient for building.
第 100 頁 - Garay, a sea cap. tain, exhibited to the emperor and king Charles V., in the year 1543, an engine by which ships and vessels of the largest size could be propelled, even in a calm, without the aid of oars or sails. Notwithstanding the opposition which this project encountered, the emperor resolved that an experiment should be made, as in fact it was, with success, in the harbor of Barcelona, on the 17th of June, 1543.
第 103 頁 - Two Boats for the present will start from Cincinnati for Pittsburgh, and return to Cincinnati in the following manner, viz: " First boat will leave Cincinnati this morning at eight o'clock, and return to Cincinnati, so as to be ready to sail again in four weeks from this date. " Second boat will leave Cincinnati on Saturday the 30th inst. and return to Cincinnati in four weeks as above. " And so regularly, each boat performing the voyage to and from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh once in every four weeks.
第 7 頁 - But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability, or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me...
第 6 頁 - Washington was often heard to say during his lifetime, that the most beautiful spectacle he had ever beheld was the display of the British troops on this eventful morning. Every man was neatly dressed in full uniform, the soldiers were arranged in columns and marched in exact order, the sun gleamed from their burnished arms, the river flowed tranquilly on their right, and the deep forest overshadowed them with solemn grandeur on their left.
第 5 頁 - The Indians have access day and night, and come and go when they please. If one hundred trusty Shawnees, Mingoes, and Delawares were picked out, they might surprise the fort, lodging themselves under the palisades by day, and at night secure the guard with their tomahawks, shut the sally-gate, and the fort is ours.
第 21 頁 - There are in the town four attorneys, two doctors, and not a priest of any persuasion, nor church nor chapel.
第 32 頁 - ... withhold all the comforts of life, which depend upon those duties that as men and fellow-citizens we owe to each other, and upon all occasions treat them with that contempt they deserve ; and that it be, and is hereby, most earnestly recommended to the people at large to follow the same line of conduct towards them.
第 105 頁 - the day will come, gentlemen — I may not live to see it, but some of you who are younger, probably will — when carriages will be drawn over these mountains by steam engines, at a rate more rapid than that of a stage upon the smoothest turnpike.