The house stood on a bluff of the merrimac, within sight of the Rapids; and the sound of the rushing waters came in upon our silence.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
Being a vessel of large coal endurance, she did not delay there to fill up, but she took with her the collier merrimac for the ships before Cienfuegos.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
Americans sent the first steamship across the ocean-the "Savannah," in 1819. Americans, engaged in a fratricidal war, invented the ironclad in the "Monitor" and the "merrimac," and, demonstrating the value of iron ships for warfare, sounded the knell of wooden ships for peaceful trade.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
