Buckley is so concerned for, is a partner with M^' Rumsey in his steamboat, 'Tis copied and annexed, to prove how busy M"" Fitch has been in calumny, and how easily he found credit and propagators. Should he incline to assert hereafter, what credit he will deserve has been. so clearly proved, that future impositions may be avoided ; and those who spread slander they do not believe, deserve the contempt of all honest men.

" Please to give my sincere respects to Doctor M^Mechen' and his worthy lady -- he is my most particular acquaintance and truly I am sorry he has been deluded by a person, who I have reason to believe is a deceiver, as Mr. Fitch, of Philadelphia, says, Mr. RuiDsey got what small knowledge he has of steam from him, but he retained the Essentials, without which, he says M'' Rumsey cannot succeed."

,1. In the 1st edition of this pamphlet this name is printed <' McMahon."-- Ed

NAVIGATION. 1033

We do certify that the above paragraph was taken from the aforesaid letter, and copied in our presence.

CHARLES MORROW, GEORGE ROOTES.

POSTSCRIPT.

It was not my intention, at this time to present to the Public a description of some improvements I have made upon the construction of Water Mills of several kinds, and would not have introduced the small sketch given here, of some part of such plans which I now have, and hereafter may propose, and exhibit to the world, but as I find by expierience, that there is danger of being supplanted or undermined in any useful and profitable discovery, where the inventor cannot preserve to himself, the plan entirely until he has brought it to that perfection which would authorise his producing it to the Public and claiming the reward they might consider his invention merited, I therefore, from the solicitations and advice of several friends have ventured to drop the following hints relative to some of them.