Mark Twain on Steamboats.

“She is long and sharp and trim and pretty. She has two tall fancy-topped chimneys, with a gold device strung between them; a fanciful pilothouse, all glass and gingerbread.

…Finer than anything on shore. Compared with superior dwelling-houses and first-rate hotels in the valley, they were indubitably magnificent; they were palaces.”

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