Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, Containing the History of the First Application of Steam as a Motive Power The Lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton, Likeness Engravings of Their First Steamboats (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, Containing the History of the First Application of Steam as a Motive Power: The Lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton, Likeness Engravings of Their First Steamboats

Portrait of John Fitch, 18 Fitch's Philadelphia Boat, 21 Fae Simile of Fitch's Writing, Portrait of Rob't Fulton. 26 Fulton's first Amer. Boat, 29 Early Nav on West. Wat'rs 33 First West n Steamboat. 42 Enterprise on her lst Trip, 43 View of Pittsburgh, 52 Map of Ohio river, No. 1, 54 Exp. Of the Washington, 56 Map of Ohio River, No. 2, 58 Exp. Of the Constitution, 59 Map of Ohio River, No. 3, 60 Sinking of the Tennessee, 61 Map otio River, no. 4, 64 Exp. Of the Teche.

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