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voyage to the city whose name she bore, in April, 1819, where 

 she arrived in seven days, after a very boisterous passage. She 

 was several times compelled to take in her wheels — having 

 machinery for the purpose — and rely upon her sails, which was 

 done with all the promptitude and safety anticipated. This 

 trial trip left no doubt that she would successfully accomplish 

 the object for which she was built. She left Savannah for 

 Liverpool soon after, and the New York newspapers of the 

 second week in June announced that she had been spoken 

 at sea, all well. In the log-book of the Pluto, which arrived 

 soon after at Baltimore from Bremen, occurred the following 

 passage : 



"June 2. — Clear weather and smooth sea: lat. 42 c , long. 

 * 59°, spoke and passed the elegant steamship Savannah, eight 



iHE SAVANNAH: THE FIRST OCEAN-STEAM E R 



days out from Savannah to St. Petersburg by way of Liver- 

 pool. She passed us at the rate of nine or ten knots ; and the 

 captain informed us she worked remarkably well, and the 

 greatest compliment we could bestow was to give her three 

 cheers, as the happiest effort of mechanical genius that ever 

 appeared on the Western ocean. She returned the compli- 

 ment." 



Niles' New York Register of the 21st of August contains 

 the following paragraph in italics at the head of its column 

 of foreign news: — "The steamship Savannah, Captain Moses 



