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. Book of the Royal blue . HmpiTji ^lauii/.ine. June 2 ARTISTS EXCURSION OVER THE BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. in double harness, puffing in unison, like awell trained pair. What will be the resultof this conjunction Heaven knows. Webelieve that it marks the commencementof a new era in human progress ; and it ismeet, therefore, that some record of theevent should be given to the From lliirpirs Magazine,—ISy of lliirper A BrothersrN TlIK llKIIINXINli. On such an occasion, perhaps, the lionsthemselves should have been the carvers ;but it has pleased them to delegate the and fellow excursionists! with theaid of your faithful memories to supply itsdeficiencies, with your kindly good humorto interpret its freedom, with the light ofyour joy-giving spirits to illuminate itsdullness, we may indulge the hope that thisrecord will not be deemed altogetherunworthy of the great event it is designedto perpetuate. Before entering upon our narrative wewill indulge in a few remarks upon thebirth and ancestry of the principal actor inour drama—Steam ; and yet, in so doing,we are sadly puzzled to know where tobegin, or where to leave off. To whatmaster-mind does the world owe the greatidea? Is it to Fulton? Both Fitch andRumsey used it before his day, and theygot it from Oliver Evans, and he doubtless,from Watt, and Watt, through Savery,Papin, and
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