Word: packet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States. This article is followed by a graphic description of the early methods of transportations and travel "Between Albany and Buffalo" in the days when railroads and canals were unknown, when roads were wretched and passable for wagons only in the neighborhood of the towns. When the packet-boat appeared after the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, the traveller of that day thought that a wonderful advance had been made. In the paper on the "Fallacy of 1860," Mr. A. W. Clason enlarges upon the different interpretations which have been placed upon the words of the Constitution...
Found-A small packet. Apply at 38 Weld...
...chief of the English forces in this country during the latter years of the Revolution, has been bought from a London bookseller by three friends of Yale College and given to the college library. The files comprise ten volumes of the Pennsylvania Gazette, seven each of the Pennsylvania Packet and Pennsylvania Journal, and two of the Pennsylvania Chronicle. The givers, who pay $500 for this collection, are Professor H. W. Farnam, Captain C. H. Townshend, and J. D. Dewell of New Haven...