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prejudices which marked its introduction upon the 

 coasts of the United Kingdom. 



In this same year (1819) Captain Moses Eoger 

 crossed the Atlantic, from New York to Liverpool, in 

 a compound sailing and steam vessel of 380 tons. 



Foreign capitalists gathered, even in France, the 

 fruit of the labours upon which Jouffroy had far half 

 a century concentrated all the resources of his genius 

 and his fortune. 



In the year following, Steel, an English builder, 

 launched upon the Seine a steamer provided with an 

 articulated oar or goose-foot, after the first system 

 tried by Jouffroy. Two years later, an English com- 

 pany brought two iron steamers into France. In 

 1825, a compound English steamer made a voyage 

 from Falmouth to Calcutta, and a Dutch boat of the 

 same kind went from Amsterdam to the West Indies. 

 From 1825 to 1830 nearly all the navigable rivers 

 and ports of France used steam-boats. 



The problem of the employment of steam for trans- 

 atlantic voyages was definitely settled in 1830 by the 

 passage of the Great Western (1,300 tons) from 

 Bristol to New York, and by that of the Syrius (700 

 tons) from Cork to New York. 



What, it may be asked, had become of Jouffroy 

 while all this progress was being made ? In 1829 

 he lost the wife whose goodness of heart and intelli- 

 gence had consoled him during these forty-six years 

 for all his disappointments, and, unable to endure the 



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