Packet-boat

She proved to be a barco de aviso, or packet-boat, that was going with letters form Panama to Lima.

The chief consul complains that, during , a certain period, every packet-boat that passed from Dover to Calais, brought over a cargo of libels.

From this port the ten destined for Monterey sailed on the packet-boat "San Antonio," on the 2d of January of the year 1771, and after fifty-two days of rather trying voyage, on account of many bad storms, they arrived without incident at the port of San Diego on the 12th of March.

The declaration contains ten counts, and in substance, they all and each of them charge, that Bromley, the defendant, was the captain of the packet-boat Empire, which regularly performed trips, at stated periods, between two places, from on to the other of which places the United States mail was regularly converyed, under the authority of the Post-Office Department, to wit, between Albion and Rochester;

Propelling the packet-boat up the stream was the most laborious and dangerous employment which can be imagined. The Indians were unceasing in their efforts to destory small parties of whites, as they were passing up or down the river Ohio. There were then but few places between Cincinnati and Wheeling, for the packet-boat to rest at night safely.

A canal packet-boat leaves here daily at 9 o'clock for Whitehall, and runs through in about 22 hours.

The packet-boat came in sight, white and slow as a deliberate swan, drew reflectively down the shining reach of water, and sidled to the landing.

Her essay then refers to one of the best-known captains of any Middlesex Canal packet-boat — Silas Tyler.