Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (1856)
Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co. · leaf 23
h we find severalallusions to the practicability of steam navigation, not forgetting thecelebrated couplet of Dr. Darwin—* Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afarDrive the swift barge or urge the rapid car— (17) 18 JOHN FITCH. yet practical men were content to leave the whole subject in the… … JOHN PITCH. Fitch, with a stroke of melancholy sarcasm, terms it the greatestmisfortune of his life, to have conceived the idea that a vessel mightbe carried through the water by the force of steam. Nevertheless, itappears from the manuscript records of his life, which he deposited inthe…
