. 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. OLIVER EVANS CAK.—Page FULTONS STEAMBOAT.—Page 446. Steamboats. 44 faiiures, and oecause what is now so easy then seemed to be imprac-ticable, (he boat was laicl upas useless,and rotted silently and unnoticedin the docks of Kensington. Her remains rest on the south side ofCohocksink creek, imbedded in the present wharf of Taylors boardyard. Fitch became more embarrassed b
. 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. OLIVER EVANS CAK.—Page FULTONS STEAMBOAT.—Page 446. Steamboats. 44 faiiures, and oecause what is now so easy then seemed to be imprac-ticable, (he boat was laicl upas useless,and rotted silently and unnoticedin the docks of Kensington. Her remains rest on the south side ofCohocksink creek, imbedded in the present wharf of Taylors boardyard. Fitch became more embarrassed by his creditors than ever; and,after producing five manuscript volumes, which he deposited in (hePhiladelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his death, hedied in Kentucky, in 1798. Such was the unfortimate terminationof this early-conceived project of the steamboat. Fitch was, no doubt,an original inventor of the steamboat; he was certainly tiie first whoever applied steam to the propulsion of vessels in America. Thoughit was reserved to Fulton to advance its application to a degree ofperfection which has made his name immortal, yet to (he unfortunateFitch belongs the honour of completing and navigating the firstAmerican steambo
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