THE DKMOLOGOS; OR, FULTON T II K FIEST. 



The dimensions of the "Pulton the First" were: — 



Length, one hundred and fifty-six feet. 



Breadth, fifty-six feet. 



1 tepth, tu enty feet. 



Water-wheel, sixteen feet diameter. 



Length of bucket^ fourteen feet. 



Dip, four feet. 



Engine, forty-eight inch cylinder, and five feet stroke. 



Boiler, length, twenty-two feet; breath, twelve feet; and depth, eight feet 



Tonnage, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five. 



I5y June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, her engine was put on board, and she was BO fir 

 completed as to afford an opportunity of trying her machinery. I >n the first of June, at ten 

 o'clock in the morning, the "Fulton the First," propelled by her own steam and machinery, 

 left the wharf near the Brooklyn ferry, and proceeded majestically into the river; though a 

 stiff breeze from the south Mew directly ahead, she stemmed the current with perfect ease, as 

 the tide was a strong ebb. She sailed by the forts and saluted them with her thirty-two 

 pound guns. I lei- speed w as equal to tlie most sanguine expectations; she exhibited a novel 

 and sublime spectacle to an admiring people. The intention of the Commissioners being solely 

 to try her enginery, no use was made of her sails. After navigating the bay, and receiving a 

 visit from the officers of the French ship of war lying at her anchors, the Steam Frigate came 

 to at Powles 1 Hook ferry, about two o'clock in the afternoon, without having experienced a 

 single unpleasant occurrence. 



On the fourth of July, of the same year, she made a passage to the ocean and back, and 

 went the distance, which, ill going and returning, Is fifty-three miles, in eight hours and twenty 

 minutes, without the aid of sails; the wind and tide were partly in her favor and partly 

 against her, the balance rather in her favor. 



In September, she made another trial trip to the ocean, and having at tin's time the 

 weight of her whole armament on board, she went at an average of five and a half miles an 

 hour, with and against the tide. When stemming the tide, which ran at the rate of three 

 miles an hour, she advanced at the rate of two and a-half miles an hour. This performance 

 was not more than equal to Robert Fulton's expectations, but it exceeded what he had pro- 

 mised to the Government, which was that she should be propelled by steam at the rate of 

 from three to four miles an hour. 



The English were not uninformed as to the preparations which were making for them, nor 



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