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leine de Yallier, and fitted up a fresh, apparatus in the 

 smithy of the Messrs. Frerejean. 



The dimensions of this second boat were, as already 

 stated, very much larger than those of the first, and 

 in it he ascended the current of the Saone, from 

 Lyons to the He Barbe, on July 15th, 1783, in the 

 presence of a committee of savants and of thousands 

 of spectators. 



After repeating his experiments with unvarying 

 success, Jouffroy entered into partnership with MM. 

 de Follenay, Auxiron, and Vedel, with the view of 

 founding a steam navigation company for the con- 

 veyance of passengers and goods, first of all upon the 

 Saone, and afterwards upon the Khone and the other 

 navigable rivers of France. Another financial com- 

 pany offered to join him, upon condition that the 

 founders would secure for it the privilege of working 

 the enterprise for a period of thirty years. 



This privilege was not secured, as appears from a 

 letter which M. de Calonne wrote from Versailles on 

 January 21st, 1784. The boat continued to ply on the 

 Saone for sixteen months, and was then abandoned. 



Jouffroy was completely ruined during the Eevolu- 

 tion, but in 1815 he obtained a patent for invention 

 and improvement, and built a boat named Charles- 

 Philippe, after the Comte d' Artois, which was launched 

 upon the Seine on April 20th, 1817, in the presence 

 of the Comte d'Artois, his sons, the Paris municipal 

 authorities, a great number of learned men, and a 



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