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Excerpt from Letter, Addressed to the Proprietors and Managers of Canals and Navigable Rivers: On a New Method for Tracking and Drawing Vessels by a Locomotive Engine Boat, With Much Greater Speed, and at Less Than One Third of the Present Expense
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