Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine (1865)
Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and company; · leaf 254
e middle of1777 ; and, as much would necessarily dej^end upon thesuccessful working of the first engines put up in Corn-wall, Watt himself went to superintend their erection inperson. Watt reached his destination after a long and tediousjourney over bad roads. He rode by stage as far asExeter, and… … MAP OF UNITED MINES DISTBIGT. constant succession of mines. The earth has been bur-rowed in all directions for many miles in search of ore,principally copper—the surface presenting an unnatu-rally blasted and scarified appearance by reason of the deads or refuse run out in heaps from the…
