 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1804 - 608 pages
...0/t, how she scoons! Robinson instantly replied, A schooner let her be. From which time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe nor America. This account was confirmed to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester. I made particular... | |
 | Commerce - 1842 - 608 pages
...how she scoons !' Robinson instantly replied, ' A schooner let her be.' From which time vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners, before which vessels ofOthis description were not known in Europe or America. This account was confirmed to me by a great... | |
 | John James Babson - Gloucester (Mass.) - 1860 - 638 pages
...sfie scoons ! ' * Robinson instantly replied, ' A scooncr let her be ! ' From which time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of ' schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe nor America. This account was confirmed to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester."t The strongest... | |
 | John James Babson - Gloucester (Mass.) - 1860 - 644 pages
...how she scoons!'* Robinson instantly replied, 'A scooner let her be ! ' From which time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of ' schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe nor America. This account was confirmed to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester."f The strongest... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Business - 1865 - 464 pages
...rigged have gone by the name of " schooners," but before which instance vessels of this classification were not known in Europe or America. This account...to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester. 1 made particular inquiry of an aged sea captain, who informed me that he had not, in any of his voyages... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod (Mass.) - 1866 - 294 pages
...whereat Robinson replied, " A schooner let her be ! " u From which time," says Tufts, " vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe." (See Mass. Hist. Coll., Vol. IX., 1st Series, and Vol. I., 4th Series.) Yet I can hardly believe this,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Business - 1868 - 906 pages
...rigged have gone by the name of " schooners," but before which instance vessels of this classification were not known in Europe or America. This account...to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester. 1 made particular inquiry of an aged sea captain, who informed me that he had not, in any of his voyages... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod - 1887 - 302 pages
...whereat Robinson replied, " A schooner let her be !" " From which time," says Tufts, " vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe." (See Mass. Hist. Coll., Vol. IX., 1st Series, and Vol. I., 4th Series.) Yet I can hardly believe this,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod - 1887 - 288 pages
...whereat Robinson replied, " A schooner let her be J" u From which time," says Tufts, " vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners...vessels of this description were not known in Europe." (See Mass. Hist. Coll., Vol. IX., 1st Series, and Vol. I., 4th Series.) Yet I can hardly believe this,... | |
 | Duane Hamilton Hurd - Essex County (Mass.) - 1888 - 880 pages
...she scoons .'" Robinson instantly replied, " A scooner let her be!" From which time,' vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of "schooners;"...vessels of this description were not known in Europe nor America. This account was confirmed to me by a great number of persons in Gloucester.' The strongest... | |
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From which time," says Tufts, "vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by the name of schooners; before which, vessels of this description were not known in Europe. 
