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Steam Engine* 
space of about five minutes, and with considerable force 
for so small a machine. I tamed here two days (May 10 
and, 11, 1789) using my best efforts to convince them of 
die possibility and practicability of propelling wagons, 
on good turnpike roads, by the great elastic power of 
steam. But they also feared the expence and difficulty of 
the execution, and declined the proposition. Yet they 
heartily esteemed my improvements in the manufacture 
of flour, and adopted them in their mills, as well as re- 
commended them to others. 
In the same year I communicated my project and ex- 
plained my principles, to Levi Hollingsxvorth^ Esq. now 
a merchant in Baltimore.^ He appeared to understand 
them ; but also declined a partnership in the scheme, for 
the same reasons as the former. 
From the time of my discovering the principles and the 
means of applying them, I often endeavoured to commu- 
nicate them to those I believed might be interested in their 
application to wagons or boats. But very few could un- 
derstand my explanations, and I could find no one willing 
to risque the ex pence of the experiment. 
In the year 1785 or 6, before I had petitioned the legis- 
lature, I fell in company with Mr. Samuel Jackson, of 
Redstone ; and learning of him that he resided on the 
* I certify that Oliver Evans did about the year 1789, com- 
jnunicate a project to me, of propelling land carriages by power 
of steam, and did solicit me to join him in the costs and profits of 
the same. ♦ 
LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH. 
Baltimore^ N^ov ember 16, 1812. 
I decertify, that some time about the year 1781, 31 years ago^ 
Oliver Evans, in conversation with me, declared', that by the po%v- 
er of steam he could drive any thing— wagons, mills, or vessel? 
forward, by the same power, 8cc. 
ENOCH ANDERSONC 
ember 15, 18L? 
