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‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure
At Natchez, Baily organized a party which included the five
‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure. For their
twenty-one days” journey to Nashville the party laid in the
following provisions: 15 pounds of biscuit, 6 pounds of flour, 12
pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of dried beef, 8 pounds of rice, 1 1/2
pounds of coffee, 4 pounds of sugar, and a quantity of pounded
corn, such as the Indians used on all their journeys. After
celebrating the Fourth of July, 1797, with ‘all the inhabitants
who were hostile to the Spanish Government,’ and bribing the
baker at the Spanish fort to bake them a quarter of a
hundredweight of bread, the party started on their northward
journey.

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preeminently American institution, the ridge road, came about
Even this necessarily brief survey shows plainly how that
preeminently American institution, the ridge road, came about.
East and west, it was the legitimate and natural successor to the
ancient trail. With the coming of the wagon, whose rattle was
heard among the hills as early as Braddock”s campaign, the
process of lowering these paths from the heights was inevitably
begun, and it was to the riverways that men first looked for a
solution of the difficult problems of inland commerce. Eventually
the paths of inland commerce constituted a vast network of
canals, roads, and railway lines in those very valleys to which
Washington had called the nation”s attention in 1784.

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obtained permission to export the necessary engine from Great
Britain and shipped it to New York, whither Fulton himself
proceeded to construct his steamboat
After considerable delay and difficulty, the two Americans
obtained permission to export the necessary engine from Great
Britain and shipped it to New York, whither Fulton himself
proceeded to construct his steamboat. The hull was built by
Charles Brown, a New York shipbuilder, and the Boulton and Watt
machinery, set in masonry, was finally installed.

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