500 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



by Peter Elder of the Perth Foundr}-. This model, which 

 travelled at the rate of three miles an hour on a smooth 

 surface, was exhibited in action before the Committee, and 

 seemed to answer extremely well. When executed on the 

 large scale, it was expected to travel at the rate of ten miles 

 per hour. The boilers for producing the steam consisted of 

 horizontal tubes, which were placed before the carriage, but 

 so constructed as to remove all danger in the case of ex- 

 plosion. 



At the dinner which followed, upwards of 400 gentle- 

 men were present. The place of meeting was the County 

 Hall, and the chairman was the Hon. Mr Hallyburton, who 

 in the course of his speech congratulated the Society on 

 the fact that in coming to Perth it had really for the first 

 time ' planted itself upon the borders of the Highlands, and 

 ■was enabled at once to shake hands with the Gael and the 

 Saxon.' 



The money expended at Perth in prizes was the 

 largest yet voted, amounting to £zS7- '^'ic number of 

 entries was not so large as at Glasgow in the previous year, 

 but the stock shows a much wider district represented. 

 The sum drawn at the gates was ^^119 7s., little more than 

 a fourth obtained at Glasgow in the Drecedins year. 



