. 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. ago. So far, hissuccess, amid the most mortifying discouragetnents, had been suflS-cient to prove the merit of the scheme. But a reverse awaited him,as discouraging as it was unexpected. The boat performed a trip toBurlington, a distance of twenty miles, when, as she was roundingat the wharf, her boiler burst. The next tide floated her back to thecity, where, after great diffic
. 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. ago. So far, hissuccess, amid the most mortifying discouragetnents, had been suflS-cient to prove the merit of the scheme. But a reverse awaited him,as discouraging as it was unexpected. The boat performed a trip toBurlington, a distance of twenty miles, when, as she was roundingat the wharf, her boiler burst. The next tide floated her back to thecity, where, after great difficulty, a new boiler was procured. In Oc-tober, 1788, she again performed her trip to Burlington. The boatnot only went to Burlington, but to Trenton, returning the sameday, and moving at the rate of eight miles an hour. It is true, shecould hardly perform a trip without something breaking; not frotnany error in Fitchs designs or conceptions, but, at that time, ourmechanics were very ordinary; and it was impossible to have ma-chinery, so new and complex, made with exactness and competentskill. It was on this account that Fitch was obliged to abandon the^reat invention, on which the public looked coldly From these. OLIVER EVANS CAK.—Page 454.
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