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Show I SAW VALUE OF STEAM POWER Newspaper of 1821 Hailed With Joy the Passing of the Day of the Sailing Vessel. ! The clouds of prejudice nnrl fenr appear to recede at tbe test of experiment experi-ment and reason, says the National Gazette of Oct. 4, 1S21. The steamship steam-ship Robert Fulton was full of passengers pas-sengers from New Orleans and Charleston, and each trip which this splendid vessel makes not only gives ample proof of safety and dispatch, Mit adds to the number of converts in favor of steam navigation on the ocean. What a gigantic improvement in science! sci-ence! Those who are in the habit of j crossing the Atlantic who are com- pelted to pass days and weeks in a j dead calm, when the unrufiled surface j nf the ocean that reflects like a mir- , ror. and when the sun pours down his lierce and intolerable rays and the sails fl'iy to and fro. can imagine what ' their feelings must be at seeing the ; steamship pass them rapidly; the: wheels in quick motion and the smoke rolling in curled volumes from tbe. furnace ; to see myriads of well-dressed passengers walking the decks. ! The next improvement of value is to i make steamships carry freight say I 150 tons of tine goods; and those which run from Montreal to Quebec may 1 serve as models. There is yet much to be dene in this way and from the j enterprise of our citizens there is no I doubt it will be done in time. j |