. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. will leave nought to do,And slave and master both may cease from labour—When giant steam, with never-tiring handShall toil, the only slave throughout the land ! Steam power has just been doing wonders, both by land and water,for travelling facilities; but who knows how soon even these ener-getic auxiliaries may be superseded, and by abler and simpler inven-tions! Already we hea
. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. will leave nought to do,And slave and master both may cease from labour—When giant steam, with never-tiring handShall toil, the only slave throughout the land ! Steam power has just been doing wonders, both by land and water,for travelling facilities; but who knows how soon even these ener-getic auxiliaries may be superseded, and by abler and simpler inven-tions! Already we hear of the electro-magnetic combinations ofDavenport and Cook, at Saratoga. This reminds us of the propheticken of science, as happily exhibited by Dr. Lardner: Philosophy(said he) already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible powerin the phenomena of electricity and m,agnetism, and we 7nay expfxtthat the steam-engine itself may ere long dwindle into comparison with the hidden powers of nature still to be may expect that the day will come when the steam-engine willcease to have existence, save in the page of history.—[Vide Treatise on the Steam-engine, 1838.]. SCHUYLKILL WATERWOKKS.—Page 457.
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