Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-05-20
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10 joel Bariow, Esq. PHILADELPHIA. y,
ssgE NEw YoRK, AUd. %, 1907.
= My dear friend - My steamboat voy-
age TO Albany and back has turned Out
rather more favorable than had calcu-
lated. The distance from New York to
Albanyis $50 miles. Iran up in thirty
two hours, and down in thirty hours.
The latter is just six miles an hour |
had alight breeze against me the whole
way yEgoing and coming, so that no use
!, was made of sails; and this voyage has
been performed wholly BY the power Of
the steam engine. ! overlook many
sloops and schooners beating to the wind
ward, and passed them as if they had
been at anchor. 10 s--a
"The power Of propeling boats by
steam is now fully proved. The morn
ing that left New York there were not
perhaps thirty persons in the city, who
believed that the boat would ever move
one mile an hour, or be Of the least utili.
ty; and while we were putting off from
I the wharf, (which was crowded with
I spectators, Iheard a number Of sarcastic
remarks. This is the way, you know, in
which ignorant men compliment what
! they call philosophers and projectors.
!, Having employed much time and
money and zeal in accomplishing this
work, it gives me, as it will you, great
pleasure to see it'so fully answer my ex-
pectations.- 1t will give quick and
cheap conveyance to merchandise on
!. the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great
!, rivers, which are now laying open their
treasures to the enterprise Of our coun-
trymen; and although the prospect Of
personal emolument has been some, in
ducement to me, yet feelinfnitely more
pleasure in rejecting with you on the
immense advantages that my country
will derive from the Invention. How
ever, | will not admit that it is half SO
important as the torpedo system Of de-
fence and attack; for out Of this will
/ grow the liberty of the seas; an object
Of infinite importance to America and
every civilized country. But thousands
of witnesses have seen my steamboat in
rapid movement, and they believe they
have not seen ship Of war driven like
a torpedo, and they do not believe. We
cannot expect peoplein general will have
a knowledge Of physics, or power o.
mind sufficient to combine ideas, and
: reason from causes to effects. But iT
! case of war, and the enemy's ships come
: into our waters, if the government viii
/. give me reasonable means of action, 4
will soon convince the world that we
!. have surer and cheapermodes of defence
4 than they were aware Of
Yours, &c.
II ROBERT FULToN.",
t The following from, the Albany Re
: gister Of Tuesday, September 8, 1907
!, shows the success Of the same boat the
= first time she ever ran for the convey
J, ance Of passengers. gso. III 4,
A .lNoRTnI RIVER STEAMBoAT.--It ap
pears from an advertisement in the New
York papers, that Mr.. Fulton's steam
+ boat is 70 ply regularly between. New
!, York and this city during the remainder
!, of the season. Sheaarrived here, for the
! second time on Saturday,, and the fol
!. loving Certificate handed US for publica
ton, will show with what facility ant
: speed she performed the passage. Sht
/ left this city again yesterday morning
i for New York, with a strong heat
q wind ' gaa,.es'r +.7
e CERTIreATE.-On Friday morning
Y at Is minutes before 7 O'clock, the Nortl
: River Steamboat left New York, landed
5 one passenger at Tarrptown, and arri
e we'd at Newburg at 4 O'clock in the af
: ternoon, landed'a passenger there. ant
!. arrived at Ciermont (where two passen
: gers were landed at Is minutes befor'
i 2 o'clock in the morning, and arrives
: at Albany at 27 minutes past ii o'clock
E making the, whole time, % hours ant
4 three quarters Of an hour-distance ont
e hundred and sixty miles, 1.n y
THE PRoGREss OF CIvILIzATIoN.--f
cclwriter, whose name we cannot at thi
J moment, recollect, mentions, as an in
stance of the progress Of civilization a
5 s mong the New-Zealanders, the great i'm
u provement they have made in the scienc
OF dietirs. Formerly they used to ca
$ their fathers, and mothers when they be
: came too oldto support themselves;no nov
: the gentle and refined gourmands din
9 only Upon the bodies of their slaves Q