Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 62

vases quickly multiplied on all the American waters. Same Fulton put on a
shipyard where he built ferries of vapor, river and steamboats of coastwise.
In 1809 he joined with Nicholas J. Roosevelt, to whom accredit
it is due for the invention of the wheel to shovels vertical, in an association
for the purpose to put steamboats on the great rivers of the
Valley of Mississippi, and in 1811 her "Orleans Nuova" you/he/she was built and it sailed
from same Roosevelt, from Pittsburg in the city to the mouth of the
Mississippi. The trip employed fourteen days, and before undertaking him to it,
come down the two rivers in a flatboat, to spread with the
channel. Roosevelt's biographer the presses an interesting letter from
Fulton in which he says, "I don't have anybody pretensions to be the inventor of the
steamboat. In hundreds of others you/he/she has tried him and you/he/she has failed." Four years later
Roosevelt's trip, her "Undertaken" it did in history for the first time
the trip on the Mississippi and Rivers of Ohio from Orleans Nuova to
Louisville, and you/he/she can be said that the great rivers have been, from that it was
open fairly to that commerce that in duration it became the greatest agency
in the building on the nation. The Lakes Grans were next to feel the
the stimulating influence of the power of new motive, but you/he/she had gone away for the
Canadian, John Hamilton, of Queenston to open this new field. The
progress of navigation of vapor on lakes and rivers, will be more fully
described in the chapters devoted to that theme.

So quickly it now made the use of the increase of steamboat on Long Island I Play,
on the rivers, and along the coast that the newspapers have started to discuss
seriously the question if the provisioning of fuel would contain from very out. The
boats exclusively used wood--coal was then but few used--and despite
the enormous forests in which you/they covered the face of the earth the wood price
cities of rose because of their application. The Mr. McMaster, the eminent historian,
it discovers that in 1825 thirteen steamboats that use on the Hudson it burned