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Title: A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Woodcroft, Bennet, 1803-1879
Subjects: Steam-navigation Steamboats Patents
Publisher: London : Taylor, Walton, and Maberly
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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es of so great a velocity in rivers, straits, &c. and in casesof emergency, will be sufficiently evident, as there can be few winds,tides, or currents, which can easily impede or resist it; and it willbe evident that even with slower motion, the utmost advantages mustresult to inland navigation. It is with great satisfaction we havereceived this intelligence from an obliging correspondent. Everywell-wisher to the extension of arts and commerce must be highlygratified with the signal success of this important experiment, whichbids fair to introduce an improvement, which by greatly facilitating,and rendering more easy, the intercourse by means of navigation,must not only be highly advantageous to our own country in parti-cular, but to the world at large, and to mankind in general. The following day I made out three clean copies, and addressedthem to the editors of the three newspapers then published in Edin-burgh, viz. the Caledonian Mercury, Evening Courant, and Adver-tizer. *##*#*
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STEAM NAVIGATION. 39 I shall proceed to account for the interval that took place from 1789.the time of Mr. Millers experiments, till the invention came heforethe puhlic. Mr. Millers pause separated him and me; and having beenmuch pressed and solicited by a noble family, whilst these experi-ments were going on, to engage in some speculations of theirs, I now,with Mr. Millers consent, entered into treaty with them; reservingthe privilege of attending the Steam Boats when Mr. Miller shouldbe inclined to move again. Two years afterwards I visited Dal-swinton, to see how the agricultural improvements stood. I foundMr. Miller completely engaged, and not willing to have his attentionabstracted from them; for he was quite an enthusiast in his pursuits,and this was then a very prevailing topic with gentlemen of landedproperty: a further delay of course followed. For several years Ipaid Mr. Miller occasional visits, but found him still more and moreengaged in his agricultural pursuits. The cult

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