Steam Navigation and Its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United States

CHAPTER I.

THE DAWN OF STEAM NAVIGATION.

_Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends. All my dreams come back to me._ —LONGFELLOW.

The up-to-date standard—Old-time sailing ships—The clipper packet-ship—Dawn of steam navigation—Denis Papin on the Fulda—Bell’s _Comet_—Fulton’s _Clermont_—American river steamers and ferry-boats.<...