Lands of the slave and the free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada . hese trials was the construction of the Charlotte Dundas,the first practical steam-boat ever built. The engines of thisvessel combined the patents before mentioned of Watt, Pickard,and Symington, which combinations — made by the latterpatentee—constitute the present system of steam Charlotte Dundas made her trial trip in March, 1802,and so satisfactory was the trial, that the Duke of Bridgewaterordered eight boats of Symington, for the purpose of runningon his canal. The Duke of Bridgewater died immediate
Lands of the slave and the free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada . hese trials was the construction of the Charlotte Dundas,the first practical steam-boat ever built. The engines of thisvessel combined the patents before mentioned of Watt, Pickard,and Symington, which combinations — made by the latterpatentee—constitute the present system of steam Charlotte Dundas made her trial trip in March, 1802,and so satisfactory was the trial, that the Duke of Bridgewaterordered eight boats of Symington, for the purpose of runningon his canal. The Duke of Bridgewater died immediatelyafter; and the Forth and Clyde proprietors, owing to theinjury caused to the banks, discontinued the use of the foregoing observations prove that if any one individualcan claim the merit of inventing the steam-engine, that manis William Symington, who, combining previous inventions * The Marquis de Jouffroy is said to have worked a boat by steam onthe Seine in 1781 ; but the Revolution breaking out, he appears to havebeen unable to complete his THE MAN. 433 with his own patent, constructed the engine as at presentin use. At the same time, every credit is due to Mr. Miller,who first afforded Symington the opportunity of putting hisingenuity to the test. Let us now look at Mr. Fultons part in the 1801 he visited Scotland, and was present at one of theexperiments making hy Symington on the canal, and fromhim he obtained permission to make full sketches and notesof both boat and apparatus. The fact is sworn to on oathof the presence of an American gentleman, who calledhimself Mr. Fulton, during the experiments; and furtherevidence is found in the fact that the engines he orderedof Messrs. Boulton and Watt for the Clermont were pre-cisely of the same dimensions as those in the CharlotteDundas, with the exception of two inches more diameterin the piston; and the patent of Fulton dates from 1809—twenty years after Symington had propelled a b
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