As the files of the Colonial MSS. in the State Department are now in progress of arrangement in order to be bound, and catalogued, persons happening to have any of the above papers are respectfully requested t,o return them, addressed, under cover, to the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y.

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SHORT

TREATISE

on the application of

STEAM,

WHEREBY IS CLEARLY SHEWN

FROM

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS,

THAT

STEAM

MA? BE APPLIED TO PROPEL

BOATS OR VESSELS

OF ANY BURTHEN AGAINST RAPID CURRENTS WITH GREAT VELOCITY.

The same Principles are also introduced with effect, by a Machine of a sinnple and cheap Construction, for the Purpose of raising Water • suflScient for the working of

GRIST MILLS, SAW MILLS, ^c,

AND for WATERING MEADOWS and Other PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURE.

By JAMES RUMSEY, of Berkely County, Virginia.

PHILADELPHIA,

PRINTED ?T JOSEPH JAMES: CHESNUT STREET

M,DCG,LXXXVIII.

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ABVERTISEMEKT.

THE following pages are taken from a pamphlet published in Virginia, to prove the author's prior right of applying Steam to propel boats, &c., as well as to establish the principles on which he has done it, a few copies were then thought sufficient for that purpose, but as Mr. Fitch intends to answer the pamphlet, it is therefore necessary to republish as much of it as lospects Mr. Fitch, which is done with no other variation, from the original, than to correct a few of the omissions and mistakes that were introduced into the first publication, from the hurry m which it was done, (as the author at that time could not attend the press) arid was circulated with an Apology annexed to the postscript, for the imperfection of the impression; of these Corrections, perhaps, Mr.