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ned byour correspondent, are substantially correct, butthough these imperfections are present it must not beinferred that their removal would banish all barrierswhich now stand in the way of obtaining the great-est economy in the use of steam. Large clearance,great compression, small port opening,… … ber of expansions which could be economically em-ployed to about four. It is the evils of cylinder con-densation which the compound locomotive is, amongother things, expected to partially overcome. Wefear, from the last paragraph of our correspondentscommunication, that he is attempting altogether…
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