The large painting — it measures more than 39 inches by 52 inches — depicts a ferry boat filled with travelers, including some in a horse-drawn carriage, crossing a river near a turreted castle, with a dramatic, wind-swept sky in the background.
Just then, the carriage crossed a bridge, and Lincoln saw a pig stuck in the muddy riverbank.
Below, daily life in the city is laid out before us: a man flies a kite, a building is on fire, soldiers are on parade, a funeral takes place, elegant ladies stroll arm-in arm, carriages cross London Bridge, and shipping jostles for space in the Pool of London.
On 27 November 1882 Inverythan Bridge on the Macduff Branch near collapsed as a locomotive hauling five goods wagons, a brake van and four carriages crossed.
Circulating meningococcal or cross-reacting strains causing asymptomatic nasopharyngeal carriage and/or cross-reactivity of antibodies with other bacteria may have contributed to the high seropositivity rate observed.
Potential confounders resulting from using a pneumolysin PCR in this study therefore include false positives associated with pneumococcal carriage or cross-reactivity with other Viridans-group streptococci.
By the mid-19th century, 850-ton ferries that could carry 2,000 passengers plus horses, wagons and carriages were crossing the Hudson every 10 minutes during the day and every 15 minutes at night.
The man hesitates but he doesn't brake, and the bicycle with the baby carriage continues its crossing.
The hero of Kenneth Oppel's thrilling new novel is a train, the Boundless, seven miles long, composed of almost a thousand carriages, built to cross Canada from west to east at the end of the 19th century.
