Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-06-09
FOR TIE ENQUIRER.

TO ZERO.
The project of navigating the ocean by
the agency of steam, and mechanical APP
paraius, has been a subject of much
thought and conversation among modern
engineers. Various have been the sur
gestions OF genius within The last twelve
or fifteen years, as well in England, as in
The coafessediy more sp,ightiy imaginations,
and 'nrent'ce faculties, OF America. Among
these, several notifications of the prince.
pie you suggest, have been tried one of
them. at tic expense, and under the i'm
mediate patronage of the English Admit
rally at an expense, too, OF about t. 700
s,erlinS-where the extension of official
once the eXiravasant ioily OF the one par
~, and the undisested theory of the other.
The Individual who thus presumes To
address you, Is animated, as he honestly
believes, WITH feelings equally liberal as
your own, ar those communicated IN the
Enquirer OF the 10th uiI. has has op-
poriunliies Of examining many subjects.
aid oil recening satisfactory explorations,
iron probe sional artists. and eufi.ht. ned
inventors, together with operating mod
cas- The result, al which is, as lar as his
simple perceptions can reach, that Voar
principle Is Capable OF iipciInI Tire great
neSiueidii!ih. ShUuid YOU feel a DISPOSE
',on to pursue the subject farther, aud To-
FAVOR Tie "riier Of ihts article with per
Soual iniervitw, may II not he possible
mat trte discussion and d comparison O.
i,iedS will complete our wishes? Although
among tie uumherieSs designs for pro
ducing wunderni effects, iiiai havr been
accessible 10 my inGuisiiivvnrss Of late
Years, have been in,iGigVd with the snec-
laclr Ola piough working nv tie pomrr Ct
wind. executing lis purpose equally com
pletc as the DIgUn piodgiI; with hctizoa-
tai Soits eeSsei too, win paddles revoly-
my through the bottom, IN likemamiioras
two separate vessels, and ID large pad
die made To- WORT between them :" ini.
vessel too With sails of the same consiruc-
iion with ih@ above : beth machines, more
over, prope!lcd(ad hbIiam )aeuinsi the5rind!
Sill, my mind /, Dent upon practical ,himgs,
tree ir0m Such complexities as are The
Distinguishing hon0rs ofihose celebrated
ultra genluSes, WHO eXCiie admiration.
1t Is true, but leave nothing solid for the
benefit OF pOSteriiy. NARRATOR.
i-r line ri' wi,a the hdiier Is i'll he received.
30 SrEAMBuAr.-Siucet cceiviug The above
letter tor the press, we under stand lru,ua gen
LEHMAN. who Is conNcrSant with ihe f.cis he re.
iatc>. thai there every probability Il he >,e..u
SNIP, projected ~ Savannah. meeting with en-
tire success. All the shares are taken ia.
equipment Is II: lking fbr her voyage Ia Liver
pool, aud she wii!pIoDahiy set, in the mos. IN OF
Octoher neXt.-We understand trat she is a
sea vessel that her wheels wlil be on her
sides, but 80 fixed, thai Ia the case OF an an.
proaching storm, they may ne taken in ina the
course OF tenminuteS; that her niaSts ayd sails
VIII probably be like these of the Scotch
smacks; that they may he put up, or struck
by means of w,nd,asscS, in "a very shurt time
ana IN factfhat every rains, which can he suu-.
sestet, viii DE adopted, tor giving her the iim-
pulse OF steam or wind, as may he required
or Tor removing her wheels or herSaiis as they
may he found 10 be in danger, or IN the way
i!ie nae steamboat, which plies between Ma.
CARA ahd KINGSTON. oh Lake Ontario furnishes
"A case somewhat 10 pOIut. liz Is well known
thdi IN this INLAND sea. as ~ were, the waves
run sometimes mountain high tie navigation
Is dangerous, as was sufficiently proved by The
frequent disasters which occurred TO he fleets
Of both nations dur,ng the late war. Yet itts
als9 a fact, that the steamboat pavigates The
Jake withsatety. Consid G. bic ap prehenSio nwaS
at first entertained OF the force OF the waves
but the iirSt experiment abaici them-nnd The
boa continues 10 ride triumphant amidst tine
storms OF the lake. hr steamboat too winch
now phes between savannah aud Charleston
of which, we believe Captain RODGERS Is the
commander, fnru hes new Sgurce of enrour
acement. She sais nearly Out OF SIGHT of the
land, sorneiimeste ni from The sh re, and
mas occasionally to tempt the dangers of the
deep In one of the most b,istereus seas IN Tie
world. Besides these. there are the steam.
d AT" which coast ii N the EugliSh Scas--from
l'nnin To Liverpool, from London To Paris,
&c. ~c:-Capt. Rodgers, who conducts tie
entrrpGize, has been spoken o. in The most Ia.
vnrab!s terms. The French government wish
cd 10 enlist his services in similar enterprise ::
ow' we hope that the u. States viii be the first
Ia reap The honor OF such Schene.--It is in.
tended, We understand. 10 uSe forfuei the hest
mineral coai-lht vessel will be elegantly e.
quipped Tor passengcis--'ine gentleman who
giYcs Us mn'I OF this information, ex poets TO
eiye the best proof Of his own confidence in the
saiO;y ami success oftie epterprze, by taking
"a passage in her iimscif-FHlroR.
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