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[communicated.]STEAMBOAT .SAVANNAH.The capacities of tliU beautiful bn.it hovuheen ful ly proven) ahe H'l Savannah on Thuradoy morning ui oiglu o'clock and landed her numerous jituiun gcrs in Cliuilcstnn before live 1*. M.On li.-r ri'iurn alia uccujiied I rum wbaifto wharf eight Imuiu and thirty-live minutes,Wo uialoratuiid ihut in ■jilte uf a swell from tho prevalence of easterly winds,she ploughed her way with rnmarkublu steadiness, ilio vibiuiury motion generally «o distressing to invalid*, being scarcely perccptiblu. .Tier hull it U well known, wu* con* itructed for tho puijxuo of crossing tho Atlantic, und i* a* strung a* wood and iron can reuder it.Of the commander Captain Crabtree, it is unne* ceasnry to apeak, ho i* known to ua all, quite long enough to show i hat to the moat eminent lt;iualiiica of un experienced acumen, may be added the high loued courtesy of« gcmlciruu, and the refinement uf a inun of lotiura. The motto lie hut adopted in llicSiivuiiimli cutiiles him to all pruise.—•'Safety, “Comfort, •*DespatchTie dura nut in the blind tecMussttua* of too many of our steamboat mutt via, %ruverae thia order, mid auciifice every thing to speed. Wo understand thut on hi* Into voyage, he regulutedlho aulety valve with hi* own hand, and curried but fuuriuun iuchea ef aleum, while the Imilor» are cnlculuted for forty.Tho dimuuition uf tho Turo to fiva Jdl«r-, m*J »f tho dis'unce from a vnyuge of thirty hours to eight, will, we are assured, quadruple the intercourse with our aiaicr city, druw pusreiigcrs from the interior, and prove in tho moat aubatuntiul manner the en* ligiiteiied and libcrul policy of her aloc'tlmldor* ill tho arrangement andexpcnau ol her voyage*.
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Savannah Weekly Georgian
Savannah, Georgia, US
Sat, May 04, 1839
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