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Crossing The Atlantic In Three Days

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
September
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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engaged in construeting steamers with which tliey say they can cross the oeuan in three days or lesa. If I knew tlie secret or plan of tbeir iutentions, of' coursc you would uot expect me to divulga it.- fiuilieo it to say T. bolieve thcy are bouud t'i aehieve a s'ucoea? that sober ininded peoplo would coasider fabulous S ithi'i the noxt five years the voyage betwcöü New York and Englaml will be made in loss than live days. Tkvt I cottsnier :u alnaost absolutely certain. The base of improvemoöt aro, modo oí' jiropulsión, style of englaos, and form and sio of huil. It is uow rodueod to a practical cortninty thit sLeam can be heaied up 600 dogreoa (Fahrenhcit,) and that alone is going to eflect a saviog iu motive power of - not oue-iifth - but inore