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common keel boat, could carry upwards, in its long, tedious and 

 dangerous voyage. 



The vast advantages, to be derived from the use of the 

 steamer, are not yet fully unfolded. It seems designed to jjene- 

 trate, all the great rivers, of the world ; those of both contin- 

 ents; to penetrate Africa, to its centre, as well as Asia and 

 South America. It seems peculiarly fitted for all the islands of 

 the Pacific, and finally, to be one in number, of the vast amount 

 of means, now u^ing, to promote commercial intercourse 

 between all mankind; to spread far and wide, all the usefjl arts 

 of life, of science, of civilization, of hammity ; and all the lights 

 of our holy religion. While we sit writing here, England is 

 making efTu-ts to bring into successful operation, the steamer, 

 on the Euphrates and the Red sea. The Niger, the Nile, the 

 Ganges, the Indus, the Buri-ampooter, the Amazon, the La 

 Plata, the Tocantius, the Magdalena, the Columbia and Orino- 

 ko, may yet be navigated, as much, as now are the Mississip- 

 pi, the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, Delaware, Potomac, Ohio 

 and Missouri. That time is rapidly approaching, indeed, the 

 steamer will one day, be seen, in every harbor, visit every 

 island, coast and country of the whole earth. Give the war- 

 rior, who desolates whole countries, and destroys millions of 

 his fellow men, his bloody fame, but give us a fame as pure, 

 and as well deserved as Robert Fulton's, and we would ask 

 no more. Unstained with blood, vice or crime, the fame of 

 Fulton, shining brighter and brighter, shall live forever. 



During all that period, whose now departed, gloomy ghosts 

 we have made walk, in sad procession, before the reader, not a 

 few of us, in this state, corresponded with our old friend DeWitt 

 Clinton of New York. All our difficulties were correctly stat- 

 ed to him. On his part, he counselled us as a father would have 

 advised his children. As to funds, he suggested to us, that our 

 school lands and salt reservations, might be sold and they would 

 produce funds enough with which to begin our canals. He 

 suggested to us, " that from our peculiar location, as a state, 

 Ohio might by means of roads and canals, become the centre of 

 travel to and from the Valley of the Mississippi, That canals 



