Notice of the Steam-Boat Babcock. 116 
aad to contend with poverty, pains and infirmities, to an ex- 
tent almost indescribable. Could the first of these ills be al- 
of which he has so long been deprived, and which would 
in a case so deserving, will not be regarded with indifference 
by the American public. 
Art. XIII.—Notice of the Steam-Boat Babcock. 
Newport, R. I. Nov. 25,.1826. 
TO THE EDITOR. 
$1r,—I have delayed answering your inquiry relative to 
the steam generators invented by Mr. Babcock il the 
question of their practical utility should be completely set at 
rest, by their successful operation. It is so often that ac- 
scriptions, until they have passed the ordeal of a successful 
experiment. Improvements in the steam engine, have, for 
more than fifty years, exercised the ingenuity, not only of 
th ical bu i though amid 
er, yet, at this day, the engine moves with the same simple, 
graceful grandeur, with which it was constructed by the illus- 
trious Watt, without any material alteration, and seems to 
have sprung from his genius, like Minerva from the brain of 
i074 w pressure engine bas never been essential- 
ly shee 98 - pein w ‘me, that the time is fast ar- 
riving when this mcshod of applying steam will be consider- 
complex and cumbersome, and until some superior me- 
thod is invented, it will be entirely superseded by those upon 
